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superior produce. The mildness of the climate, the e» 

 tensive range of pasture, the steady supply of food, anti 

 the consequent unvarying health of the animal, give the 

 poorest breeds a superiority which could hardly be aU 

 tained in any other quarter of the world. Indeed, ai 

 noticed at paragraph (70.), Australia appears by nature 

 intended to produce fine wool, and fine animals, eveu 

 from the worst beginnings. 



Great, however, as the capabilities of the colon;? 

 are for the growth of the finest wools, the intending 

 emigrant must not suppose that he will obtain thenc 

 without devoting to the subject a particular portion of 

 his regard. Mild warm air, and abundant diet, will go 

 far towards putting him in possession of a superior 

 flock ; but without earnest attention to the minor details 

 required in the management of his sheep, the most 

 favourable locality will avail him little. 



Let Australia be ever so much praised, as being 

 peculiarly adapted for the rearing of sheep, they have 

 there, in common with every kind of animal in every 

 part or' the world, a certain liability to disease. "With 

 all Its boasted steadiness of climate, bad seasons occa- 

 sionally occur, and lead to sickness among the flocks, 

 and in addition to the usual chances of loss arising from 

 this cause in other countries, there is, in some parts of 

 it, a still more dreaded mischief resulting almost un- 

 avoidably from the moral constitution of its society. 

 A convict- servant who has a pique at his master, has 

 it often entirely in his own power to subject the flocks 

 under his charge to some one or other of the serious 

 diseases to which sheep in all countries are peculiarly 

 liable. He may pasture them on an improper spot, 



