Author : James Busby
Release : 2013-09
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Book Synopsis A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, and the Art of Making Wine by : James Busby

Download or read book A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, and the Art of Making Wine written by James Busby. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION. IN. the view of emigrating to New South Wales, the compiler of the following work was led into an examination of the circumstances of that colony, in the course of which, jhe was particularly struck with the relation in which it stands to the mother country. Destitute of, or producing in a very inconsiderable degree, any article of produce which mitjht minister to the wants or comforts of Great Britain, and, consequently, incapable of maintaining with her that regular and natural intercourse between a colony and its parent state, which consists in the exchange of the raw produce of the one, for the manufactured commodities of the other, New South Wales seems, till very lately, to have been chiefly dependent on the expenditure of the money of Great Britain, in the subsistence of felons transported to its shores, and in the pay of the establishments necessary for their mat nagement and controul; and has, consequently, been considered rather as a necessary and expensive appendage to the judicial institu B tions of the country, than a colony to which she might look for an extension of her power, or an increase of her trade and resources. Of late, however, the spirit of emigration has led thither many individuals and families, of a different description from that of which the bulk of the colony formerly consisted. Men of enterprise and industry have been induced to settle in the colony, by the expectation that the abundance of good-land which would be granted to them without price, and almost without burdens, would repay the capital and industry engaged on it, better thau the highly rented and taxed lands of their native country; or, than any other mode of investing their capital, and employing their industry, was capable of..