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deuced by the splendid roads of Cape Colony, traversing 

 mountain passes 6000 to 8000 feet high, the numerous public 

 buildings in Singapore, Hong-kong, Sydney, &c. Edifices, 

 which in consequence of the high price of free labour, might 

 not have been erected under the lapse of many years, actually 

 at present rear their imposing forms like so many ornamental 

 memorials, now of the worship of the loving Saviour, now of 

 our charitable duties to the sick and afflicted, but all serving 

 to instruct and civilize the rising generation ! 



3. As to the subsistence of the criminals, we do not be- 

 lieve that the principle of giving them the same descriptions of 

 rations, no matter whether they worked much or little, would 

 be found conducive to the attainment of the great object of 

 making them feel an interest in their labour. We would 

 rather see the present system departed from in this particu- 

 lar, and a marked difference made in the food provided for 

 the industrious, as compared with their more indolent 

 companions. 



4. Of great importance in penal colonies, as tending to 

 produce a lasting and decided improvement of the individual, 

 is the FAMILY TIE. What is independence or even affluence 

 to the exile, if he has no one to care for, or think of, but him- 

 self? His slow and laborious earnings would greatly tend 

 to plunge him once more into excesses, till he quickly sank 

 back into his former state of war with civilization. 



5. It seems to us imperatively necessary in the interests of 

 this great design of a penal colony, that provision should be 



