NEW SOUTH WALES. 



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irished from decent society. The discoveries 

 of coal, tin, iron, &c. &c. open the doors of 

 commercial intercourse, sufficiently to prove, 

 that whatever articles the country might here- 

 after stand in need of, may be procured by the 

 endless resources of its own natural produc- 

 tions. 



The unfortunate circumstances which occa- 

 sionally distress the country, both in conse- 

 quence of the extreme heats and overflowing 

 of the Hawkesbury, will undoubtedly become 

 evils of less serious magnitude, as cultivation 

 becomes still more generally diffused; for the 

 slightest observation will shew, that had the 

 country in the interior, been in a state of cul- 

 tivation, the rains which swelled the Hawkes- 

 bury would have been absorbed, as they de- 

 scended instead of rolling down the smooth sur- 

 faces of the hilly parts, and thus in one grand 

 body, rushing into the Hawkesbury. Of this 

 indeed, I am fully convinced, for as the pur- 

 suits of Agriculture extend, the violent rains 

 are attended with less dreadful consequences, 

 which proves evidently, that in process of time, 

 no ill effect will result from them. But on the 

 contrary, the earth when in a state of culti- 

 vation in the interior, will naturally be moist- 

 ened and improved by the rains, and the 

 moisture so received, will resist the heats which 

 occasionally distress the settlers, by setting the 

 whole surface of the country on fire ; and as the 

 nature of the soil is so particularly prolific as to 

 afford two annual crops. New .South Wales 



