007 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(Image-007.jpg) Transcription - Cap II (5) (iii) Recto lady has done very little more for New South Wales than any other country, she has scattered at random over the face of the earth a sufficient material to accommodate the necessities of all her children but she has left them also the arduous task of collecting and arranging them to supply them real or fictitious wants. She has given them a splendid climate fertile country woods abounding with game and rivers teeming with fish, every day the researches of the industrious bring to light fresh resources from the forest and mountains - and wherever the country is cleared the lovers of the picturesque may gratify their taste - But on the other hand a new settler is something like our common father when turned out of paradise obliged to earn every the most trifling enjoyment by the sweat of his brow and his own ingenuity. There can be no stronger proof of the fertility of the soil and the extreme bounty of nature, than the lazy apathy of many of the old settlers, who go on from year to year in the same course of inactive unenterprising life finding that working one day in the week will supply their wants for the remainder, whilst on that one day they content themselves with working their ground with a hoe, instead of opening the treasures of the soil by a more rapid and effectual mode of culture - These are people instead of endeavouring to amend their fortunes by industry sometimes complain bitterly that the old times are gone by when even the little exertion above alluded to, enabled them to spend a considerable portion of their time at a grog shop - whilst a little more exertions and a few trifling inexpensive improvements would enable them still to indulge in that consummation most devoutly to be wished - SubjectNew South Wales historygrogrumNSWHunter ValleySettlerAustralian historyMaitlandAustraliaDatenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2665495147/

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