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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1860, Edition 1 of 1, Page 326, XLVIIL—ON ASSISTED EMIGRATION.

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      ¦ ¦ • -* &* - It Is Tlie Fasmon Of Some ...

      lias said " If ye give but a cup of cold water in my name to one of these little shall return ones , ye into give our it " unto bosoms nie and ; " even far above on earth all else the , good Christ seed has sown said

      , , " Ye shall have praise of niy Father in heaven . "

      A . L .

      326 On Assisted Emigration.

      326 ON ASSISTED EMIGRATION .

      Xlviil—On Assisted Emigration.

      XLVIIL—ON ASSISTED EMIGRATION . { Concluded from page 240 . ) lf ~ ! - -

      —Asss - ^ - Currency Creek, Adelaide, So...

      _—asss - _^ _- Currency Creek , Adelaide , South Australia , June , 1849 .

      Dear Friends , You will perhaps read with interest a slight account with which I

      surrounded Adelaide intend On entering to , present the by the view hi port you h is and , , very so which romantic far gr as and is I , about am with hills yet . a six large acquainted On miles the expansion north from with side the of the flat of town colony Ade land of - .

      laide the river T g orrens runs , which supplies the town with water . It is carried about in casks on carts drawn by horses . The township

      being slab of Adelaide sand all taken formed I consider down as , they very one were flourishing , generall fancy , but the y built old a poor houses of cob specimen and or huts upri of g are ar ht

      chitecture , . Now the any town is may well laid out in streets , N . S . E . W ., about four yards wide , which gives plenty of room , and there are

      twenty many The good - produce five bushels buildings of the generall land acre is and y generall built other of y crop very brick s in good . proportion . Wheat . averages Potatoes

      per , grow quite to well stalk on dark and no barn tubers soil form s , but , other on sand vegetable y and other s flourish soils . they Fruit run is

      they plentiful are , of and a very melons good are flavor grown and in abundance crop well , , but broad are cast chiefly in the used fields for ,

      in feeding side uncultivated by persons pigs , who ground eating eat them , the spring fruit greedil ing . up Grapes y . from Melons seeds are also are dropped frequentl grown on in the y abun found way - -

      few still dance ye adding good , ars some to and to persons become their sells at n a having umber great from , fifteen p three lace so I for to to believe the four twent wine shillings this y acres trade colony . of per vines It is gallon is likel generall , and . y in All are y a

      settlers very manage , to get a piece of garden containing a few vines and fruit It is trees surprising , which grow to very fast althou arriving gh badl here y in attended the spring to . of the

      the year sun , to is see not the hot vegetation and any burning , person or I but may calm say and the crops pleasant , as , at with that frequent season

      , thunder showerswhich make all things look lively and green . In ,

      December the hot winds begin to blow , but they rarely last longer

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/38/