003 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(Image-003.jpg) Transcription - Cap II (4) (iii) Recto part a hardy enterprising race were considered unfit to cultivate the immense tracts of Rich Country which the interior holds forth to the hand of industry. On the other hand settlers bringing out wives and families were not distinguished from those who come without any, so that the man who offered the best pledges to the community for his industry namely ringing a family to provide for was obliged to commence his arduous undertakings with precisely the same degree of encouragement as one who might be a mere bird of passage. The native born population especially the males pass much of their time on horseback and are consequently adepts; horses can now be procured at a low rate and almost every one has his stud at least they have a beast with three or four legs according as they have the means of procuring it. The horses for the most part are light and indefatigable, having a strong cross of the Arab. There are many animals that would not fetch 40/ in Smithfield that will carry the traveller fifty miles a day without baiting. There are no road side houses in the bush and the horseman must travel from one station to another whether it be 40, 50, or 60 miles without stopping unless he is inclined to go to grass with the kangaroo or partake of a delicious repast on gum leaves with the opossum. Our currency lads on horseback are indefatigable although like Mamelukes rather lazy when on their own legs - They are inclined to be litigious but manly in their resentments and taken as a whole are as fine a body of hardy enterprising people as can be met with in any of the old countries. If land were distributed with a less [assuring] hand amongst the natives of the Colony and new emigrants it would soon lay the foundation of extensive back settlements, and be the [precuus] of fostering a hardy and enterprising race in the interior, and become the groundwork for raising Capital in flocks and herds, At present no land is granted, every location must be purchased from the Government ere a tree can be fallen or an acre sown; the process of obtaining land is tedious and vexatious, the applicant must first scour the country to select land suitable to his purposes, he must then send in a proposal to purchase to the Colonial Secretary, the land SubjectNew South Wales historyrecreationland applicationNSWHunter ValleySettlerAustralian historyMaitlandAustraliaDatenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2665492235/

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