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VOICE FROM AUSTRALIA;

OR

An Inquiry

BEING

INTO THE PROBABILITY OF NEW HOLLAND
CONNECTED WITH THE PROPHECIES RELATING
TO NEW JERUSALEM.

BY

HANNAH VILLIERS BOYD,

Author of "Letters on Education to a Friend in the Bush of

Australia."

Second Edition, Revised.

"And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I
plead with you face to face. Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the
wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you saith the Lord
God."-EZEKIEL XX. 35, 36.

LONDON:

PARTRIDGE AND Co., PATERNOSTER ROW.

DUBLIN: SAMUEL B. OLDHAM, SUFFOLK STREET.
EDINBURGH JOHNSTONE AND HUNTER.

MDCCCLVI.

DUBLIN: Printed by W. Porteous, 18 Wicklow-street.

BRITISH

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PREFACE.

THE daily increasing interest which is manifested by all Christians who have leisure to study the prophecies, concerning those things which are yet unfulfilled, will, I hope, be sufficient apology for a woman publishing her opinions on so important a subject.

The first Edition of this little volume was printed during my residence in Sydney; and at the end of the year 1850, I sent twelve copies of it to a friend in London, to be placed in the Great Exhibition if they arrived in time, and if not, to be circulated amongst the London booksellers. The result was, that it was reviewed in the London Literary Gazette, August 14th, 1852.

Two years since, I left Sydney to revisit my native country, and before I return to New South Wales, I feel it a duty to republish

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