The History of New South Wales is a work by George Barrington. Barrington was an Irish author. Excerpt: "The beautiful and fertile island of New South Wales, is ascertained to be the largest in the world, and formerly supposed to be part of that imaginary continent, called Terra Australis Incognita, lies between 10 degrees 30 minutes, and 43 degrees South latitude, and between 110 and 153 degrees 30 minutes East longitude, extending in all as much, as the whole continent of Europe, the Eastern coast running not less than 2000 miles in length from North-East to South-West. Its dimensions from East to West has not been so accurately ascertained."