For the purposes of description, the large land division has 

 been subdivided into districts. The statements contained in the 

 following pages are all founded on fact and experience, and no 

 attempt has been made to unduly magnify the good, or minimise 

 the bad, features of the colony's lands. Western Australia is not all 

 sand ; neither is it all soil of exceptional fertility. Between the two 

 extremes there is a happy mean, and it is the object of these notes 

 to briefly and truthfully point out that, in spite of many detractors, 

 this happy mean does exist to a very great extent in this colony. 

 In proportion to its area an area greater than many European 

 Kingdoms the South-west Land division of the colony the chief 

 cultivable portion contains a very small proportion of land that 

 cannot be put to some good purpose ; a very large proportion that 

 only awaits the potent agency of the plough to become productive. 



