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fortunes acquired out of “the public estate” and at 
expense, and the outcry is loudest among the people 
taken no part in the struggle, and whose wages, work, and 
are being increased by what is going on. e rew 
squatters, and more particularly the back-blockers, recei 
into consideration the numbers engaged in the work and 
portion of successes to failures, is not excessive, and fp 
seem to get for their reward, in ninety-nine cases out of a 
nothing at all. 
If the sale of land in all the outside country, exe 
of town and suburban settlement, were ab 
of water, and second, because in no case can one find 
the strata such as is so 
apware times, geologica 
cleared the water off and left it as we now =< it, 
ble 
and across to the Hunter, noticing that as I appr 
Dividing Range there was a gradual increase 
em getting smaller as I went west. 
Before concluding this paper, 
the lity of finding water under 
