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It is not intended in these remarks to encourage any individual in views of emigration. They are addressed to those whose minds are in some measure fixed; and it is to those who have to choose the most advantageous situations in new Settlements for their future residence, that any practical knowledge is offered.
Their attention is therefore drawn to the following leading features of the proposed new Settlement on the West Coast of New Holland:—
The climate between 30 and 35 S.[1] must be excellent, and congenial to all European constitutions.—The soil is represented as rich, and the country well wooded. The Swan and Canning Rivers, taking their sources at the foot of elevated lands, 30 miles from the coast, and 1200 feet above the level of the sea, pass through plains, joining in one outlet, near Cockburn Sound, at which place the principal Settlement is intended to be formed. At the mouth of the river there is a rocky bar, therefore, Cockburn Sound, securely land-locked at the distance of five to six miles from the river, will be the great anchorage
- ↑ De Freycinet's account of Baudin's Voyage, places Swan River in lat. 32.4.31.S. lon. 115.46.43. East of Greenwich.
