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an argument on the other side, when the rapid progress made 

 by the Australian colonies under the influence of this trans- 

 portation system is adduced as an example in point, that no- 

 where probably on the earth would external circumstances, 

 position of the country, and development of the colony to 

 such a pitch of prosperity, combine so wonderfully to pro- 

 duce such a result, as was the case with New South Wales. 

 But even the clumsy method of carrying out this form of 

 punishment, and the immense use made of it for selfish ends 

 by men who had every opportunity for studying close at 

 hand the influence it might have been made to exercise upon 

 the development of the Australian colonies, could not weaken 

 the conviction that, under more judicious management, it 

 would have answered every anticipation that could reason- 

 ably be formed of any mode of punishment, and that it is 

 better calculated than any other to prove conducive to the 

 amelioration of the criminal himself. We might, while upon 

 this subject, specially refer to the valuable and comprehensive 

 work of Dr. Holtzendorf upon transportation as a means of 

 punishment,* which embraces all that can be said on either 

 side of the question, all put together in an attractive and ex- 

 haustive manner, and who, contemplating the great example 

 presented to the world by Australia, has arrived at a similar 

 conclusion, "that the working power of the criminal may, 



* Die Deportation als Strafmittel in alter und neuer Zeit, und die Verbrecher- 

 Colonien der Englander und Franzosen in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwickelung und 

 criminal-politischen Bedeutung. Dargestellt von Franz v. Holtzendorf, &c Leipzig, 

 A. Barth. 1859. 



