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(legTecs longer. Towards its centre it shewed great 

 intensity of light, heconiing visible in the crepuscu- 

 lum before stars of the second magnitude. Through 

 its more attenuated extremity, the stars were plainly 

 seen, the coma seeming to be much less dense, 

 shewing the sky through the centre like a dark line. 

 Whilst we were in the Derwent, a sliip was loading 

 with corn for England ; and I could not help re- 

 gretting that, although grain from these colonies, 

 on account of its dry nature, is well adapted for a 

 long voyage, the heavy duty almost shut it out from 

 the English market. It was impossible not to feel, 

 that justice as well as policy should have dictated 

 the admission of Australian wheat on the same 

 terms as Canadian. The injury inflicted by the 

 exclusive system pursued, is, that less land is put 

 under cultivation, and fewer people are encouraged 

 to go there ; both the colony and the mother country 

 are sufferers therebv. 



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