There's a fine of two pounds for cracking one within a mile of Government House, they make such a row.

A man the other day cracked one of them on the South Head, and broke the windows in Pitt Street." "You're improving, master Jim," said Charles Hawker.

"You'll soon be as good a hand at a yarn as Hamlyn's Dick." At the same time he wrote down a stockwhip, similar to this one, on the tablets of his memory, to be procured on his projected visit to Sydney.
That evening we all sat listening to Jim's adventures; and pleasantly enough he told them, with not a little humorous exaggeration.

It is always pleasant to hear a young fellow telling his first impressions of new things and scenes, which have been so long familiar to ourselves; but Jim had really a very good power of narration, and he kept us laughing and amused till long after the usual hour for going to bed.
Next day we had a pleasant ride, all of us, down the banks of the river.

The weather was slightly frosty, and the air clear and elastic.
As we followed the windings of the noble rushing stream, at a height of seldom less than three hundred feet above his bed, the Doctor was busy pointing out the alternations of primitive sandstone and slate, and the great streams of volcanic bluestone which had poured from various points towards the deep glen in which the river flowed.