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THE LAND OF PROMISE:

BEING

AN AUTHENTIC AND IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF
THE NEW BRITISH PROVINCE

OF

SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

INCLUDING

PARTICULARS DESCRIPTIVE OF ITS SOIL, CLIMATE, NATURAL PRODUCTIONS, &c.
AND PROOFS OF ITS SUPERIORITY TO ALL OTHER BRITISH COLONIES.

EMBRACING ALSO A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE

South Australian Company,

WITH

HINTS TO VARIOUS CLASSES OF EMIGRANTS, AND NUMEROUS LETTERS FROM
SETTLERS CONCERNING WAGES, PROVISIONS, THEIR SATISFACTION

WITH THE COLONY, &c:

BY ONE WHO IS GOING.

"We daily receive letters from various correspondents, requesting our opinion as to the best
places for individual emigrants to resort to."-Times.

"There never was a time when room for more labour was wanted in England than the
present."-Spectator.

"South Australia is, at present, in the ascendant to what is to us a most interesting class
of emigrants-respectable labourers and artisans, and intelligent and educated small capi-
talists, aspiring to improve their condition, or to keep their place in society, after the
struggle has become hopeless in the Old World."--Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.

LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., CORNHILL.

1839.

Harv rd Co Library

June 2,1919
J.J.Lowell fund

†† During the author's sojourn in England, he will be happy to give any information to intending emigrants of every class, on application, by letter (post paid), addressed “To the Author of 'The Land of Promise,' care of Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill." Wellauthenticated communications respecting the new colony may likewise be addressed to him (confidentially or otherwise), as above.

Cunningham and Salmon, Printers, Crown-court, Fleet-street.

PREFACE.

THE following sheets pretend to no higher merit than belongs to industry in the collection of information, care in ascertaining its authenticity, and fairness in making selections from the mass. This is really the work of an intending emigrant, and was begun, continued, and ended, under the influence of the feelings and motives incident to one in that position. The author, it will readily be credited, had no design of imposing upon himself; and he can assure his readers that they will reap the full benefit of his caution. He is not conscious of having concealed any defect, or exaggerated any merit, attaching to the subject of his narrative; nor is he aware of the existence of any source of appropriate information which he has not exhausted. He has not felt it necessary to refrain from expressing his opinion on several matters relating to the colony; but he has, in every case, expressed it distinctly and directly, and not through any unauthorised colouring of facts. The reason of this publication is, he trusts, apparent in its completeness and fulness, as compared with any other work of a similar description.

The renunciation of his native land, and the adoption of another country, is the most important step that a man can take, and one, moreover, which can seldom be retraced, and never without much inconAenience and loss. "To all such," says a recent writer on South Australia, "as have determined to break through the ties of early association, and to found for themselves and for their children a new country on the distant shores of another hemisphere, the merest rumour attaching to the subject is of importance, and every opinion is canvassed with that depth of absorbing interest which the emigrant alone can fully