more wise, purchased ready-cleared farms in the settlements or followed
some profession more congenial to their taste, or more suited to their
abilities.

The only persons fit to undertake the hardships of a bush-life, are
those who have obtained a certain degree of experience in their own
country upon the paternal estate or farm. Men who have large families
to provide for, and who have been successful in wood-clearing, are
generally willing to sell their improvements, and purchase wild land
for their families, whose united industry soon places them in a better
farm than they owned before. They are thus rendered greater
capitalists, with increased means of providing for their children, who
soon take up their standing in society as its favoured class. Indeed, I
would strongly advise gentlemen of small capital to purchase ready-
cleared farms, which can be obtained in most parts of the country, with
almost every convenience, for half what the clearing of bush-land would
cost, especially by an inexperienced settler. In fact, since grants of
land are no longer given to the emigrant, there is less inducement to
go so far back into the woods.

Since 1826, a steady influx of the working classes from Great Britain
and Ireland has taken place. This has tended much to the prosperity of
the country, by cheapening labour, and the settlement of vast tracts of
wild land.

Several experiments have been made by Government in sending out pauper
emigration: that from the south of Ireland, under the superintendance
of the late Hon. Peter Robinson in 1824, was the most extensive, and
came more immediately under my own observation. I have understood that
some most obnoxious and dangerous characters were shipped off in this