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 be supposed, that in the present age of steam-conveyance, any great inequality in the price of land, any more than in the price of labour or in that of provisions, can possibly be maintained long between two settlements so easily accessible from each other both by sea and land, however differently they may have been originally constituted in other respects.

But there is also a large increase of the land revenue of New South Wales to be expected from the sale of town allotments. In a letter, which I