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A Transporting Subject
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THE subject for the Chancellor's English Prize Poem, for the year 1823,
was Australasia (New Holland). This happened to be the subject of
conversation at a party of Johnians, when, some observing that they
thought it a bad subject, one of the party remarked, It was at least a
transporting one.
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