HINTS TO EMIGRANTS. 
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that a man who regulates his conduct by pru- 
dence, and who perseveringly follows up his 
occupations, who behaves with kindness to those 
around him, and performs his social and moral 
duties with punctuality, will ultimately secure 
to himself a home that will make up for the one 
he has quitted in the land of his fathers, and 
place him in as respectable and as happy a 
situation as that which he there enjoyed. 
Having thrown out the foregoing remarks for 
the information of the general reader, and of 
persons who look to Australia with the more 
earnest views of selecting a colonial home, I 
now return to the immediate object of these 
volumes ; but before entering on the narrative of 
my own expeditions, I think it necessary to ad- 
vert cursorily to the discoveries previously ac- 
complished. 
The journeys of Mr. Oxley, far into the 
western interior of Australia, gave rise to va- 
rious and conflicting opinions as to the charac- 
ter of the more central parts of that extensive 
continent, of which the colony of New South 
Wales forms but a small portion. I feel, there- 
fore, called upon briefly to advert to the con- 
