led Blackman's River,
which falls into the Macquarie.

_Victoria_--a village on the river Huon.

_Westbury_--a town in the parish of Westbury and county of Westmoreland,
140 miles from Hobart, and 20 from Launceston. It has a resident police
magistrate, a postmaster, and other officers, and contains an episcopal
church and school, a Roman catholic church and school, a Wesleyan
chapel, and three inns. The town and district has a population of 2,842,
and 420 houses. William Archer, jun., Esq., is the first member for the
electoral district.

_Windermere_--a village on the eastern bank of the Tamar, about 15 miles
from Launceston. It has an episcopal church and a mill.

_Wye_--a branch of the Swan Port River.

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NOTES AND ERRATA.

Transcriber's Note: the following errata have been corrected in the text
above.

Page 14. Black Tom, executed, was not the murderer of Mr. Osborne,
but a servant of Mrs. Birch of the same name.

Page 27, for "north-east belonging," read "north-west."

Page 71, for "1839," read "1830."

Page 71, for "Oyster Bay," read "Oyster Cove."

Page 90, for "Monododo," read "Monboddo."

Page 92, for "aborigina," read "aborigine."

_Note_, page 101. Conditional servitude, under indentures or
covenants, had from the first existed in Virginia. The servant
stood to his master in the relation of a debtor bound to repay the
cost of his emigration by employing his powers for the benefit of
his creditors--oppression easily ensued. Men who had been
transported to Virginia at the expense of L10, were sometimes sold
for L40 or L50, or even for L60. The supply of white servants
became a regular business, and a class of men, nick-named
"spirits," used to delude young persons and idlers into embarking
for America as to a land of plenty. White servants came to be a
usual article of traffic. They were sold in England to be
transported, and in Virginia, were resold to the highest bidder. In
1672, the average prices for five years service when due, was about
L10.--_Bancroft_, vol. i. p. 175.

"The Scots, whom God delivered into your bands at Durbar, whereof
sundry were sent here, we have been desirous as we could, to make
their yoke easy. Such as were sick of the scurvy or other diseases,