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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    fore unreflecting, farm-labourers of England. To say that a class of men who have been accustomed to the free and easy carriage of their limbs, and to the continual exercise of their faculties, cannot learn how to use an axe, a spade, or a bullock-drivers whip, is absurd. All that they would want is the will; and, if they have the will, they are a hundred to one before the joint-stiffened and muddle-headed clown from the threshing-floor or the plough’s tail. That the prosperity of Australia will be pro¬ gressive there can be very little doubt. Even the crisis through which its various settlements have passed, are sure indications of their ulti¬ mately arriving at a point from which there will be no sensible retrogression. In short, those commercial crises have been only the natural struggles of a rising commercial spirit, which will overcome all obstacles. Her wool trade has already taken its place amongst the taple trades of nations; the revival of the
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