I have endeavoured, as I have gone on, to indicate the natural sources of wealth to which the colony has a right to look. To those that I have already named I should add the breeding of horses, for which it seems to be specially adapted. At present the business is limited by the difficulty which the breeders have in disposing of their produce. India is their great market,--together with Batavia and Singapore. But there are no middle traders to take the young horses off the hands of the breeders,--who cannot themselves breed horses, and charter ships, and conduct the sales. This again is one of the evils to which a scanty population is ever subject. I have no doubt that the exportation of jarrah-wood and of pearl-shell will become large and prosperous trades. The former will probably be by far the most beneficial to the colony, as it will be prosecuted by men in the colony,--whereas the pearl-shell will be sought and taken away by coasting strangers. It is hard, too, to believe that a country should be so prolific in grapes as this is without some result. I will not take upon myself to say that I drank West Australian wine with delight. I took it with awe and trembling, and in very small quantities. But we all know that the art of making wine does not come in a day;--and even should it never be given to the colony to have its Château This, or Château That, its 1841, its 1857, or 1865, or the like,--still it may be able to make raisins against the world. Gold of course may turn up even yet. For myself, I look to corn and fruit, and perhaps oil,--to the natural products springing from the earth,--as the source of the future comfort of this enormous territory. INDEX. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Aboriginals at Work, 65 Acres under Cultivation for various Crops, 43 Act of Parliament under which the Colony was formed, 11 Adelaide, Capital of the Colony, 19, 21, 28 Albert, Lake, 5 Alexandrina, Lake, 5 Angas, Mr., 12 Ballot, 77 Barker, Captain, Mountain named after him, 6 Burra Burra Copper-mines, 60 Church of England, 24 Cockatoo Farmers, 33 Constitution given to the Colony, 15-18 Coorong River, 6 Copper, 58 Darling River, 5 Debates in Parliament, 79 Droughts prevalent, 38, 45 Early History of the Colony, 3 Farming badly done, 32 Gambier-Town, 55 Gawler, Colonel, second Governor, 12 Gold, 58 Gordon, A. L., the Poet, 57 Goyder’s Line of Rainfall, 38 Great Northern Railway through the Colony, 72 Grey, Captain, Governor, 13 Hindmarsh, Captain, first Governor, 12 Hutt, Sir William, 12 Kapunda Copper Mines, 59 Kooringa-Town, 60 Land, Price of, as regards the Colonies generally, 10 Land, Sale of, 36-38 Legislature, 76 Light, Colonel, Surveyor-General, 12 Mail Coach “Bushed,” 67 Meat, Price of, and Exportation, 52, 53 Moonta Copper-mine, 61, 62 Mount Gambier, 55 Murray River, 5 Murrumbidgee River, 4 Nepean Bay, 12