perhaps, at a future period, may be taken 

 from us with all the improvements we have 

 jnade. And, as if this fine colony had given 

 fuch great encouragement in the northern 

 hemifphercj we are now about to have ano- 

 ther of the fame kind in the fouth, the fuccefs 

 of which is even more uncertain than that of 

 Nova Scotia, as the burning regions of the 

 torrid zone ^ for more than 40 degrees latitude,, 

 muft be eroded before we can get at it. 



The ifland of New Holland is fituated in a 

 climate by no means the mod agreeable ; its 

 productions are, as yet, unexplored ; different, 

 indeed, they certainly muft be from thofe of 

 this country, but how far they can be offer- 

 vice to us, in preference to our own, muft 

 certainly be very doubtful. One thing is cer- 

 tain, that before any of thefe can be conveyed 

 to Britain, they muft coft ten times more 

 than they can poffibly be worth. 



The colonifts, it feems, are to be inoftly 

 compofed of thofe, who, for their crimes, are 

 reckoned unfit to flay in this country. This 

 may, at firft, feem to be a piece of good po- 

 licy, but it will require no great judgement in 

 calculation to foretel with certainty, that they 

 muft thus be much more expenfive to the na- 



t> tion* 



