"The colonist ([is] Wakefield himself) ... dictated to A. Allom in 100 days ... when plans for the Canterbury settlement were gathering momentum ... today it is chiefly of ...

"The colonist ([is] Wakefield himself) ... dictated to A. Allom in 100 days ... when plans for the Canterbury settlement were gathering momentum ... today it is chiefly of ...

A detailed discussion and explanation of Edward Gibbon Wakefield's (1796-1862) influential philosophy of colonization, first published in 1849.