Part 40 (1/2)

”Almost the whole of New South Wales is covered with bush

It is not the bush as known in New Zealand It is rather a park-like expanse, where the trees stand widely apart, and where there is grass on the soil between them”

<hw>Bush</hw>, adj or in couish, the hyphen depending on the fancy of the writer

1836 Ross, `Hobart Town Al of our cart wheels, it is well known, does not always improve the labours of Macadaiven in Canon Good Episcopate of Bishop Perry,'p 75:

”A hard bush sofa, without back or ends”

1849 J Sidney, `Eazine,' p 40 (Letter from Caroline Chisholm):

”What I would particularly recommend to new settlers is `Bush Partnershi+p'--Let two friends or neighbours agree to work together, until three acres are cropped, dividing the work, the expense, and the produce--this partnershi+p will grow apace; I have reements of this kind

I never knew any quarrel or bad feeling result from these partnershi+ps, on the contrary, I believe theood will; but in the association of a large nuers, for an indefinite period, I have no confidence”

1857 W Westgarth, `Victoria,' c xi p 250:

”The gloo and bad bush-roads”

[Bush-road, however, does not usually h the bush, but a road which has not been formed, and is in a state of nature except for the wear of vehicles upon it, and perhaps the clearing of trees and scrub]

1864 `The Reader,' April 2, p 40, col 1 (`OED'):

”The roads from the nascent metropolis still partook mainly of the random character of `bush tracks'”

1865 W Hewitt, `Discovery in Australia,' vol ii p 211:

”Dr Wills offered to go hih bush seasoning, qualified person”

1880 `Blackwood's Magazine,' Feb, p 169 [title]:

”Bush-Life in Queensland”

1881 R M Praed, `Policy and Passion,' c i p 59:

”The driver paused before a bush inn”

[In Australia the word ”inn” is now rare The word ”hotel”

has supplanted it]

1889 Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol ivp 3:

”Not as bush roads go The Australian habit is here followed of using `bush' for country, though no word could beon the way that can really be called a bush”

1894 `Sydney Morning Herald' (exact date lost):

”Canada, Cape Colony, and Australia have preserved the old significance of Bush--Chaucer has it so--as a territory on which there are trees; it is a simple but, after all, a kindly development that when a territory is so unlucky as to have no trees, sorohatever, it should still be spoken of as if it had them”