Excerpt from Perils, Pastimes, and Pleasures of an Emigrant in Australia, Vancouver's Island and California We have dwelt the more upon this pet scheme of colonization, from the fact of its having been lauded by almost all parties on its first enunciation and, also, from the singular failure which it has experienced in our colonies, the consequences of which are yet felt to a very great and aggravating extent. Several of our leading statesmen were strangely smitten with its beauty did all they could to sanction its ...
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Excerpt from Perils, Pastimes, and Pleasures of an Emigrant in Australia, Vancouver's Island and California We have dwelt the more upon this pet scheme of colonization, from the fact of its having been lauded by almost all parties on its first enunciation and, also, from the singular failure which it has experienced in our colonies, the consequences of which are yet felt to a very great and aggravating extent. Several of our leading statesmen were strangely smitten with its beauty did all they could to sanction its practical development extolled it to the skies in limini, as a masterpiece of political sciences: have, many of them, lived to see its utter break-down, and, yet, have not the moral courage to confess their judg ment at fault, as they still cling to some of its pro visions in their administrative instruction to our colonial dependencies - the high price of land, for instance, and its attaching conditions, which is a bane to a healthy system of Colonization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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