to accompany Mr. Calder’s Paper. 
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attempt to reach the Derwent. I mention these points merely to 
illustrate the value of Spring Bay as a safe and convenient 
harbour; the speedy formation of a town, if it were once resorted 
to by shipping, and the extreme salubrity of the climate on the 
east coast, would be sufficient attraction, whenever population in¬ 
creases by respectable immigration, to induce many to turn their 
steps in that direction; and it is the only harbour worthy of the 
name between Capes Pillar and Portland. Shelter for small craft 
may indeed be found during westerly gales in Fortescue and 
Pirate’s Bays, as well as Great Swan Port, but the latter is very 
shoal, and in S. and S.E. gales a heavy sea sets in. 
A road has already been formed through the fertile plain watered 
by the South Esk, commencing at Avoca and terminating with 
the sea at Falmouth; but the attempt to magnify the little shelter 
afforded by an out-lying rock off the coast at the latter place, into 
possessing the capabilities of a harbour, is chimerical in the 
extreme, as no coasting vessel of any dimensions could lay there 
even during the swell which the ordinary sea breeze sends in. 
The road alluded to is however extremely valuable, in opening the 
line of communication with an extensive and fertile district; and 
giving greater facility for the transit of produce for shipment to 
either of the ports of Hobart or Launceston, than is possessed by 
any other district in the colony. A road formed to Spring Bay 
would do the same, with the advantage of a good and safe harbour 
for shipping at its termination. 
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