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Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia

CHAPTER VI
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To commemorate the transaction, and to transmit to a grateful posterity the recollection of the nobleman who then presided over the colonies, the estate, together with the district in which it is situated, was honoured by the name of Camden.
EXPORT OF WOOL TO ENGLAND.
Since that time the value of New South Wales wool has been constantly on the increase, and the colony are indebted to Mr.M'Arthur for the possession of an exportable commodity which has contributed very materially to its present wealth and importance.

Such general attention is now paid to this interesting branch of rural economy, that the importation of wool into England from our Australian colonies, amounted, in 1832, to 10,633 bales, or 2,500,000 lbs.

It has been sold at as high a price as 10s.

per lb.; but the average price of wool of the best flocks vary from 1s.6d.to 4s.6d.

at the present moment.


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