]54 COLONIAL INDUSTRY. 



we propose in any of its divisions, either for the 

 removal of our surplus population, the reduc- 

 tion of our national debt, or the improvement 

 and prosperity of our colonies themselves. 



Another defect of our colonial industry, at 

 present, lies in this, that comparatively little 

 attention is paid to overcome by art the physical 

 difficulties which a different climate throws in 

 the way of the colonist. Industry is evidently 

 here at fault, from the want of science to direct 

 her labours. This is more particularly the 

 case in our colonies of the southern hemisphere, 

 than in those of the north. We are intro- 

 ducing the pastoral system of the Highlands of 

 Scotland into our Cape and Australian terri- 

 tories. While the clearance system is going 

 on at home, our expatriated countrymen are 

 reducing the same theory to practice in a 

 foreign land. The Caffre and Papua are fast 

 being supplanted by the flocks and herds of Great 

 Britain. Such a system probably may be 

 justified as a temporary expedient ; but cer- 

 tainly it can never be looked upon in any other 

 light, and therefore ought to be acted upon 

 accordingly in time. 



The general complaint against the immense 

 island of New Holland is the scarcity of 



