Title: The Founding of South Australia as recorded in the journals of Mr. R. Gouger ... Edited by E. Hodder.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection offers titles providing historical context for modern day Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It includes studies of their relationship to British colonial heritage, Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and histories of sailors, traders, missionaries, and adventurers. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Gouger, Robert; Hodder, Edwin; 1898. 239 p.; 8 . 9772.bb.30.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of time ensue. Free grants of land had been made in enormous quantities, and had been selected before the colonists sailed. One individual had been granted half a million of acres, and as he naturally selected his "lot" close by the port, other emigrants had to go beyond this vast and most eligible tract before they could settle. Ultimately land was sold, but at the ridiculously low price of one shilling and sixpence per acre, and consequently, as everybody who went out was thus enabled to become a landed proprietor, no labourers were found to cultivate the soil. The result, which far-seeing men had apprehended was soon realised. The scheme was an all but total failure. The renewal of interest in colonisation at the period of which we write was due, in great measure, to Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who advanced the theory that free grants should be entirely abolished; that Crown lands should not be sold at a low price; that hired labour could never be obtained side by side with great cheapness of land; that " the exchange of land for labour was the only method of realising a just proportion between land, labour, and capital"; and that "the universal sale of land, instead of land-grants, and the exclusive employment of the purchaser's money to promote education," should be the principle upon which colonisation in the future should be based. Eobert Gouger, who at one time had been almost induced to cast in his lot with the Swan Eiver Settlers, saw at a glance, in the light ofthese new theories, the rotten basis on which that colony was founded, and without hesitation gave up all thought of settling there, and unreservedly adopted the principles of colonisation as laid down by Wakefield. To a man of Gouger's energy, to see a thing as practicable was to set to work and prove...