THE 
TASMANIAN JOURNAL 
OP 
NATURAL SCIENCE. 
Art. I. On Irrigation in Tasmania. By Captain 
A. F. Cotton, Madras Engineers. 
In travelling through Tasmania, and collecting inform¬ 
ation respecting its resources, with a view to form a 
judgment of its capabilities and prospects, among the 
abundant materials which will be discovered in its soil, 
climate, minerals, and position, for the formation of a 
country of the first rank in the scale of nations, no 
person who has seen the effects of irrigation in warm 
climates can fail to perceive that, first, the Colony must 
be benefited almost beyond calculation by watering; 
and, secondly, that it has most singular natural advan¬ 
tages for introducing the system. Indeed many, if not 
most, of the principal landowners in the Colony, who 
have never seen an extensive and complete system of 
irrigation, are now fully satisfied of the importance of 
the subject; and the main difficulty to the prosecution 
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