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and industrious inhabitants^ when a heavy duty, which, 
according to report, in order to favour its growth in 
New Holland, was laid upon all taken into the port of 
Sydney, prevented their continuing its culture with the 
least expectation of profit. It was therefore in a great 
degree abandoned. The information, however, which 
the inhabitants received from the individual whom Mr. 
Williams employed to instruct them, not only in its 
growth, but in the methods of preparation, by which 
it assumes the different forms under which it is offered 
in the markets, was valuable; and though no very advan¬ 
tageous results have hitherto followed, it may hereafter 
be productive of good. 
