A History of Australia, Volume 2The second volume in a history of Australia which aims to highlight the hardship and trauma that occurred there during the establishment and development of white settlement. This volume chronicles New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) between 1822 and 1838. |
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Page 316
He wanted transportation to be both formidable and humane, to occasion as little
as possible of useless suffering, to be alike a corrective, and at the same time
cheap and profitable to the community, or at least not excessively costly.” Far
away ...
He wanted transportation to be both formidable and humane, to occasion as little
as possible of useless suffering, to be alike a corrective, and at the same time
cheap and profitable to the community, or at least not excessively costly.” Far
away ...
Page 329
He also asked them to consider in what cases the punishment of transportation
should be retained, and whether it should be applicable at all in cases of larceny.
Within a month he had made up his own mind on this latter point. Transportation
...
He also asked them to consider in what cases the punishment of transportation
should be retained, and whether it should be applicable at all in cases of larceny.
Within a month he had made up his own mind on this latter point. Transportation
...
Page 344
Nothing, Molesworth wrote, could be better demonstrated than that labour must
be supplied from other sources than that of transportation, if New South Wales
and Van Diemen's Land were to continue to flourish. But, he insisted, the
Australian ...
Nothing, Molesworth wrote, could be better demonstrated than that labour must
be supplied from other sources than that of transportation, if New South Wales
and Van Diemen's Land were to continue to flourish. But, he insisted, the
Australian ...
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Contents
A R K N | 17 |
T H E R ETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
T H E N ATI W E SON OF FE N DS GROSS LY | 61 |
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