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The Condition and Capabilities of Van Diemen's Land as a Place of Emigration; Being the Practical Experience of Nearly Ten Years' Residence in the Colony by John Dixon (Paperback / softback, 2012)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1839 Excerpt: ... better off at home, than he would be, were he in the colony. Situations are scarce, and salaries low; the wages of labour falls still lower in consequence of the free emigrant having to compete with the convict; so that inducement remains for the labourer, the artisan, the farmer, the clerk, the shopkeeper, or the merchant, to quit his country for a colony thus situated. CHAPTER IX. THE CAUSES OF THE DECLENSION OF THE COLONY, AND MEANS PROPOSED FOR ITS SPEEDY RECOVERY. In the foregoing pages I have described the physical capabilities and natural resources of the island, to be eminent. It has a safe, spacious, almost unrivalled harbour; a fertile and luxuriant soil; a healthy (and twithstanding its inconstancy) a salubrious climate. What, therefore, restrains its prosperity, and renders it unsuitable for the residence of industrious emigrants? Why, instead of progressing, has it retrograded; and why, instead of being an hour, is it a dishour to the mother country? The reasons for these seeming contradictions, I shall make the subjects of this chapter. I shall detail the cause of the declension of the colony; and then offer one or two simple suggestions as to how it may be recovered, and rendered ultimately prosperous and flourishing. Abundance, and cheapness of good land, are the two causes which conduce to the quick prosperity of all new colonies. During the early periods of its settlement, the progress which Van Diemen's Land made towards opulence was rapid and surprising. No colony advanced faster, and ne ever developed so soon such superiority of advantages. The causes which conduce to the quick prosperity of other colonies, were those which conduced to the quick prosperity of Van Diemen's Land. It abounded with good land, and this was granted...

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0217914292
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12/05/2016
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08/02/2012
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Black & White Illustrations
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