Facsimile edition. Originally published in 1826 for the benefit of prospective migrants, Atkinson's Account has since attracted a wide and curious audience. Atkinson was a free settler who drew on his own experience to present the Account and he made valuable suggestions as to how colonists might improve their practices by adapting principles already accepted by the better English farmers. A great wealth of information here for the student of early social and economic history. Cover art: View At Oldbury (unsigned) attributed to Mrs. James Atkinson.