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,—In fulfilment of the trust which I had the honour to receive from you, I have completed the M.S. for a Hand-book of Western Australia, in which I have endeavoured to carry out your instructions and to make it as generally useful as the space to which it was limited would permit.

There has been much difficulty in the selection of materials, still more in deciding what might be omitted. I can scarcely hope to have been altogether successful, but I shall be well satisfied if I obtain your approval, and if I have succeeded in affording such information about the Colony as those having interest or desiring to settle in it might require, and which is not to be found elsewhere.


 * I have the honour to be,
 * Your obliged and obedient Servant,
 * C. G. NICOLAY.

Perth, 31st August, 1877.