The handbook for Australian emigrants Author:Samuel Butler Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: which is most conducive to the progress of society and the real welfare of man. CHAPTER V. LOCALITIES FOE EMIGRATION. ]. Town—2. Professions—3. Country ... more »Occupations—4. Bathurst—5. lllawarra— 0. Campbelltown—7. Glenlee—8. Appin—g. Wallongong 10. Pasture—11. Simplest Mode of Commencing Pastoral Life—12. Mode of Selling Land. 1. The emigrant would be wrong to fix precipitately the precise spot for his final settlement before he leaves his native country. On his arrival, notwithstanding every attempt which may have been made to give him an accurate description on the part of others, or on his own, to form a clear idea, he will find many circumstances very different from what he previous' imagined. But to a person of virtue, industry, and active habits, there can be little difficulty in making a choice of any of the pastoral districts, whether he has already acquired capital, or goes out trusting to the strength of his own arm and the energy of his own mind. Those especially who are in the prime of life, and with a rising family, can scarcely commit a serious mistake, whichever of the great colonization fields in all Australia they may choose, as the advantages and disadvantages of each will be found in a great measure to counterbalance one another. With regard to the selection of a precise spot, residence in the country, employment in conjunction with others, and extensive travelling, will form the safest guides in enabling the emigrant to make a selection. To form a permanent residence in the towns, and to expect profitable occupation there, should form an object of desire or ambition to none. Lingering in them for a protracted period has proved the ruin and blasted the hopes of many. Those whose inclinations and habitswould lead them to such a course had better remain ...« less