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settler to these shores was the blood-stained buccaneer, Hying in hot haste from the 

 fierce pursuit and just revenge of the lawful mariner to mangrove-mantle. 1 creeks and 

 verdant bights for shelter and security. Then came the sentenced out-law, the c;xil<: 

 from the old lands anxious to rid themselves of their criminal off-spring ; and then the 

 voluntary immigrant desirous of finding in a virgin soil the garnered increment of 

 unused energy, in a primal civilization the scope and freedom denied to him in the land 

 of his birth. Next came the shepherd, snatching from the uncropped pasturage a novel 

 and a nomad wealth far different from, far distancing the experience of the elder- 

 settled earth. Gold was discovered and a hurried rush set in from every quarter of 

 the globe, bringing thither, besides much that might have well been spared, the errant 

 brawn and brain of Europe and America. The next stage in our development is repre- 

 sented, therefore, by the digger delving and diving into the mysterious crypts and secret 

 places of the earth, his cheek reddened with the hectic flush of the gold-fever, and his 

 sleep oft tortured with tantalising visions of deep-buried treasure caves, elusive in his 

 waking hours. By and by in this train of progress appeared the farmer, legitimate son 

 of Nature, reaping only where he had sown, gathering only that which he had strawed, 

 content with a just increase. The procession grows now rapidly denser. Successive 

 links in this chain of modern development they throng the merchant, the worker at 

 the loom, in the quarry, the workshop, the factory, the counting-house, the teeming 

 dockyard, the palatial emporiums of commerce there appears no limit to the manifesta- 

 tions of the young sap of that tree whose shoot first broke the crust of Austral soil 

 but little more than a hundred years ago. This is the history of the whole earth ; but 

 in the old lands it covers centuries. Here in this New World the great transition 

 between the impenetrable and unknown forest trodden only by savages, and the busy 

 streets, the crowded wharves, the close-thronged palaces of commerce and of industry, the 

 temples sacred to art and to faith, the legislative halls consecrated to liberty, the cattle- 

 dotted plains, the teeming flocks and herds, the ship-lined quays, the sail-flecked harbours, 

 the luxuriant vineyards, the acres of golden grain, in short, the youthful energy of a 

 new-born nation, are all found summarised in the brief epoch between the year 1 788 

 and that of 1891. The two following tables present, in all the eloquence of figures, a 

 panoramic view of the growth of population in Australasia during this period : 



The population of Axistralia from 1788 to 1824, according to the statements of the musters made iu New South Wales, 

 Van Diemen's Land and Norfolk Island, as prepared by the Government Statistician of New South Wales in the General 

 Report of the Census of 1891 : 



Population 







From 1788 until the year 1813 the population of Norfolk Island is included in the totals of population uf 

 South Wales. 



t Tasmania, then known as Van Diemen's Land, was settled in 1804, and the yearly statements include tho inhabitant* 



of that Island up to the year 1825. 



J The years 1822 and 1823 are given inclusive of the military j the years 1 

 the military. The statements of all the other years from 1788 to 1817 include the military. 



|| The yearly statement for 1824 includes the few inhabitants at Moreton Bay. 



