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PREFACE.
emigration in preference to the other divisions of Australasia.
I am fully sensible that this work, brief as it is, is not without its shortcomings and defects, but the main object of its pages will be accomplished if it succeeds in correcting some of the mistaken impressions brought home and disseminated by tourists, and in conveying to the intending emigrant some useful hints concerning one of Great Britain's most valuable possessions.
W. E. S.
Cheltenham, December, 1891.
