Perils, pastimes, and pleasures of an emigrant in Australia, Vancouver's Island and California.

Date:
1849
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Credit: Perils, pastimes, and pleasures of an emigrant in Australia, Vancouver's Island and California. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    miglit have been conducted by easy and inexpensive channels of transit. But, unfortunately, although EMIGRATION would obviously have been the natural preventive of the pauperism, which has sprung from the impossibility of our limited area supplying ad infinitum sufficient employment for a popula¬ tion which is illimitable ; and, although the Crown possesses unoccupied territories, of almost bound¬ less extent and fertility, for colonisation, our surplus labour has been hitherto cut off from them bj oceans which have rendered them in¬ accessible for immigration, except on too small a scale to produce any sensible effect on the labour market, which it is so essential to relieve from redundant competition for employment at home. The question, therefore, is—How is Emigration to be carried out so as to produce this desirable re¬ sult % Before I attempt to answer this question it may be as well to take a retrospective glance at the subject of Emigration—to trace its rise and progress in public opinion—to mark the different phases through which it has passed, from its first nebulous condition in the cloudy regions of error, to its pre-
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