The Rise, Progress, and Present State of Van Dieman's Land: With Advice to Emigrants. Also, a Chapter on Convicts, Shewing the Efficacy of Transportation as a Secondary PunishmentJ. Cross, 1833 - 244 עמודים |
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עמוד 245 - Provisions of an Act to provide for the Administration of Justice in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and for the more effectual Government thereof, and for other purposes relating thereto...
עמוד 37 - ... sallow meagre countenances declare, without words, that they are very miserable: many who went in healthy, are in a few months changed to emaciated dejected objects. Some are seen pining under diseases, "sick, and in prison...
עמוד 244 - The Crown reserves to itself the right of making and constructing such Roads and Bridges as may be necessary for public purposes in all Lands purchased as above, and also to such indigenous Timber, Stone, and other materials, the produce of the Land, as may be required for making and keeping the said Roads and Bridges in repair, and for any other Public Works. — The Crown further reserves to itself all Mines of precious Metals.
עמוד 38 - In many gaols, and in most bridewells, there is no allowance of bedding or straw for prisoners to sleep on ; and if by any means they get a little, it is not changed for months together, so that it is offensive and almost worn to dust. Some lie upon rags, others upon the bare floors. When I have complained of this to the keepers, their justification has been "The county allows no straw; the prisoners have none but at my cost.
עמוד 127 - NNW direction for four miles and a half. At the distance of three and a half miles up, it expands to the westward to form a large bay, the safest part of the harbour. The water is deep on both sides close to the shores. The western head is formed by a hill of between four and five hundred feet in height, with a clear round top, and perpendicular sides towards the sea. The eastern, by a bold rocky point, surmounted by a conical hill 800 feet high, with another still loftier behind it. From this point,...
עמוד 58 - Wales. until their return at night, when they are supplied with the only substantial meal they receive in the twenty-four hours. Their labour consists in cutting up the trees growing near the coast, into heavy logs, which they carry on their shoulders, or slide to the water's edge, and form into rafts. During the greater part of this duty, the convict has to work up to his middle in water ; and even in the woods, from the moist and swampy nature of the country, his employment is of the most disagreeable...
עמוד 43 - Pardon on condition of Transportation, or any Order or Permission to suspend or remit the Labour of any such Person, except in Cases of Illness, until such Person, if transported for Seven Years, shall have served Four ; if transported for Fourteen Years, shall have served Six ; or if transported for Life, shall have served Eight Years of Labour...
עמוד 244 - The crown reserves to itself the right of making and constructing such roads and bridges as may be necessary for public purposes, in all lands purchased as above, and also to such indigenous timber, stone, and other materials, the produce of the land, as may be required for making and keeping the said roads and bridges in repair, and for any other public works. The crown farther reserves to itself all mines of precious metals and coal.
עמוד 33 - ... to civilize and educate them ; but, except learning a few English sentences, it was to little purpose, as they invariably ran back to the woods when an opportunity offered. It is singular that though Van Diemen's Land abounds in such fine rivers, and is surrounded by the sea, the inhabitants should not have advanced even to the construction of the slightest raft; but they are undoubtedly in the lowest possible scale of human nature, both in form and intellect. They have small hollow eyes, broad...
עמוד 128 - On sailing up the harbour, within the clear hill at the western head, is seen a small sandy beach, where the surf is generally too great to allow of boats landing. Half a mile higher up, and beyond an inner rocky head, is Safety Cove, a fine large bay with a sandy beach, into which vessels often run for shelter from the stormy winds and heavy seas so frequent upon this coast. It is open to the south-east, but by lying well round into the south-west corner of the cove, a ship may be sheltered from...