Excerpt from Transportation and Colonization, Or the Causes of the Comparative Failure of the Transportation System in the Australian Colonies: With Suggestions for Ensuring Its Future Efficiency in Subserviency to Extensive ColonizationThe following work was written at sea, in the course of the Author's last voyage from New South Wales to London, towards the close of the year l836. Its main object is to point out to His Majesty's government, to members of parlia ment, and to the British public generally, the absolute necessity of some immediate and exten sive change in the regulation and management of the transportation system in the Australian colo nies, as also the means of effecting such a change without entailing any additional expense on the mother country, through the judicious application of the land -revenues of these colonies to the pu1 pose for which they were originally destined.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.