Page:Hints on emigration to the new settlement on the Swan and Canning Rivers, on the west coast of Australia.djvu/10

 8 But, however admirably gifted by nature any situation may be deemed for the purpose of forming a new settlement, many weighty considerations must press upon the mind, and much privation will be endured, before any individual will determine to quit his native land, in search of ease or affluence in a distant uninhabited world. Therefore, the difficulties and embarrassments ought to be considered, as well as the prospects of comfort and independence. And one material object should always be borne in mind—whether the step can be retraced without an excessive sacrifice, in case of disappointment.

One point of consideration in the proposed measure (although in reality of no essential importance to pecuniary success) is of considerable magnitude, as regards moral feeling and the pride of many—that is, there being no admission of convicts into the proposed Colony!—Those who establish property and families, will feel that their names and fortunes cannot be mixed hereafter with any dubious idea as to their origin. They