System in Van Diemen's Land--large arrivals--incompetent
officers--errors on which the system-was founded--Lord Stanley's
defiance of the settlers--re-emigration--hiring depots--representations
of Forster--Hampton--Boyd--Fry--crimes increase--laxity of
discipline--Mr. Bishton's views--North Australia--Mr. Latrobe--his
representations--ticket system.

SECTION XXV. p. 318.

Treatment of female prisoners--their transportation a great
evil--numbers--Sir G. Murray's scheme.

SECTION XXVI. p. 321.

Lord Stanley's directions for the disposal of women--Mrs.
Bowden--married female prisoners.

SECTION XXVII. p. 323.

Views of transportation often governed by interest--old
system--incompatible objects sought--frequent changes--every theory
contradicted by results--Arthur's opinion--progress from 1830--capital
expended--value of convict labor--sacrifices of the settlers--effects of
transportation--public works--numbers transported--character of
convicts--repetition of crimes--views of statesmen--moral effects of
transportation--cause of opposition to transportation.

CONCLUSION.

p. 339.

History of Tasmania a type of the Australasian world--early despotism
unavoidable--American and Australian colonists--the despotism moderated
by home associations--by the press--the union of the colonists--advances
of liberty at home--changes required--advantages of the connection with
Great Britain--its dangers--federal government--importance of political
influence--social state--wonderful prospects--resources--position--exports
--gold discovery--the happiness of the people in their own power.

ALPHABETICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CHIEF PLACES IN TASMANIA.

p. 355.

HISTORY OF TASMANIA.

THE ABORIGINES.

THE ABORIGINES.

SECTION I.

[1643.] At the era of discovery by Tasman, Van Diemen's Land was
inhabited. He heard, or thought he heard, the voices of people and the
sound of a trumpet: he noticed the recently cut notches, five feet
asunder, on the bark of the trees, and he saw the smoke of fires. He
inferred that they possessed some unusual method of climbing, or that
their stature was gigantic. In the sound, the colonist recognises the
vocal _cooey_ of the aborigines, and learns from the steps "to the
_birds' nests_," that they then hunted the opossum, and employed that
method of ascent, which, for agility and daring has never been
surpassed. Thus, during more than 150 years, this country was forgott