The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . TASMANIA: EARLY HISTORY. \-Z.) into utter decay by the presence of a few vagabonds of colonial breeding, just asDarlinghurst, Pentridge, and St. Helena will be for the reception of the law-condemnedknaves of New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. Discovered in IGU, it wasnamed in honour of his patron, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies, by Abel Jans VanTasman, a Dutch mariner, who was not only grateful for favours to Mynheer VanDiemen, but was also violen
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . TASMANIA: EARLY HISTORY. \-Z.) into utter decay by the presence of a few vagabonds of colonial breeding, just asDarlinghurst, Pentridge, and St. Helena will be for the reception of the law-condemnedknaves of New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. Discovered in IGU, it wasnamed in honour of his patron, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies, by Abel Jans VanTasman, a Dutch mariner, who was not only grateful for favours to Mynheer VanDiemen, but was also violently in love with the Satraps daughter, after whom henamed a cape and an island, still tolerated by the colonists to whom the secret of. VIEW OF HOBAKT TOWK, TASMANIA. their nomenclature has descended. It is not, however, until the end of the eighteenthand the beginning of the nineteenth centuries that we find any one paying much attentionto it. But in the year 1802 the French navigators were casting suspiciously hungryglances at it, which probably accounts for the fact that in the year 180;3 a few Englishsoldiers and convicts were landed not far from the spot where Hobart Town nowstands. Then free colonists arrived, and were assigned portions of land in proportion tothe capital they brought into the country. Settlements multiplied, and public worksgrew up rapidly under the hands of the convicts, who also, in the form of assignedservants, supplied, in many eases, good and, to the farmers, certainly inexpensivelabour, though the British tax-payer took another view of the question. Finally,in 1825, the colony, which had hitherto been a part of New South Wales — at137 |;30 THK COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. tliat lime the only
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