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3 Aug. 1802
N.S. Wales

As Your Lordship will pardon me I am sure, for not
travelling all attempting to send you quite make you travel quite through Buffon on this occasion, and non stopping
at every stage.

For pearls I hold the actual ones of Ceylon equal
to all possible ones from New South Wales.

For vulgar oysters I would barring pickling, especially whether pickled ones be or be
not thrown out of the account, I I
would not give a single barrel from Old Wales, for all
that will ever be imported from the New.

For furs , the finer fine and valuable ones are
for ever rendered hopeless by the climate. for coarse ones,
our own hares and rabbits, not forgetting cats — will
show to great advantage when compared with the kangaroo
and kangaroo-rats of New South Wales.

I do not deny the existence of the Emu: but from
every thing I can have ever seen or heard admitting the permanent value of feathers — I can not
think he will ever be looked upon by our ladies the best fairest and best judges as
any thing better than an apology for an ostrich.

I admit the ability softness as well as whiteness of swans down: but as to the
black sort, for which we are indebted to New South Wales, I
(I mean for the knowledge of its existence) I can not admit the superior utility of it for any thing beyond the
spoiling of a latin proverb.

For diamonds and other pretious stones, the impossibility
of their existence in New South Wales is certainly not proved.
But in (in which where I believe we have some influence)
the miners are more cheaply kept, more easily looked after,
and rather more in practice.

These instances may I hope be enough for samples:
for a pretty full satisfactory illustration at least if not for a full proof
of the general int and though familiar not the less instructive
rule which teaches the comparative value between birds in
hand and birds in bushes. Should may it appear to any
gentleman + gentleman that Your Lordship knows of (for instance any one of the dignified supporters of the improved Colony for instance) that New Wales affords at any any exception to this rule, I am at his service at any time, for arguing it to follow him through the book of nature.

Identifier: | JB/116/110/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-08-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	39
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	110	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d25 / e11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37643
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