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 products is only limited by the power of production.

It will operate on the prosperity of the colony, as those medicines on the human frame, which (the cure being beyond the power of the physician) are administered to alleviate present pain, and protract the period of that dissolution they cannot prevent.

From a consideration of these circumstances, and under a strong impression of the importance to the colony of an increase of its exportable commodities, the compiler of the following work was induced to spend some months in the best wine districts of France, with a view of acquainting himself with the cultivation of the vine for the making of wine, and having the power to ascertain to what extent it might be profitably cultivated in New South Wales

The result of the investigations which he made, relative to this subject was, a conviction on his mind, that there was the strongest probability, not of its partial success, but of its supplying the great desiderarum of a staple article of export, to which the colonists of New South Wales might be indebted for their future prosperity.

This conviction was founded, in the first place, on a consideration of the profits derived from the cultivation of vineyards, the value which this culture gives to lands favourable for it over those employed in any other species