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system adopted, which is much to be regretted. 

 I allude to no distinction being made between 

 those banished for trivial offences, and those who 

 have committed deeper crimes. Many atrocious 

 characters are assigned to persons of the highest 

 respectability, well clothed and fed ; and from 

 them often have I witnessed most unbounded in- 

 solence : so that a stranger would imagine the 

 master to be under obligations to the servant, and 

 would be astonished when told that the servant 

 was a convicted felon. 



On the 17th of September, I left Raby, in 

 company with Mr. Henry O'Brien, for the Yas 

 country, intending to visit several parts of the 

 Bathurst district by the way. Our mode of 

 travelling was on horseback. We passed 

 " Fleurs," (formerly Baily Park,) the property 

 of R. Jones, Esq. : it is a neat farm, with ex- 

 tensive sheep runs ; and several suitable spots of 

 land were in progress of being laid out as vine- 

 yards. The vine having now become an object 

 of cultivation over most parts of the colony, and 

 the prolific bearing of fruit* in a very short 



* Besides the vine, other fruit-tree cuttings blossom and 

 even bear fruit in a very short period of time. I saw a peach 

 cutting, in a garden near Sydney, about six inches long, 

 which had been planted only ten days, and was covered with 

 a profusion of blossoms. 



