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This short paragraph comes from R.G. Jameson’s New Zealand, South Australia. and New South Wales” A Record of Recent Travels in These Colonies, with Special Reference to Emigration and the Advantageous Employment of Labour and Capital, published by Smit, Elder & Co., London, 1842.
p. 158.
“The districts, which are exclusively agricultural, or where agriculture may be combined with dairy farming, are Illawarra, the alluvial valleys of the Hunter and Hawkesbury, and the country around Port Stephens.The marked superiority of the soil and climate of Illawarra is referable principally to its being hemmed in between an elevated range of mountains and the sea coast - geological position favourable to coolness and moisture. It produces wheat, barley, maize, and tobacco, and is, perhaps, like the Hunter, adapted for the cultivation of silk and cotton, the vine and bananas. The price of good agricultural land in the Illawarra is from five to fifteen pounds per acre; the estate of Keelogues, in this district, comprising about twelve hundred acres, was purchased by Colonel Breton for 12,000l......”
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