8 CBUISE OF THE 'CUEACJOA.' 



workshops for the convicts still exist. They are all of them 

 in such a state of preservation as to appear at a little distance 

 comparatively new, and one is surprised that they should 

 have been so long in use ; the windows, however, are for 

 tlie most part broken, the roofs are falling in, and some 

 ]xirt of the wood-woik has been carried ofl' for fuel. The 

 chapel of the old penal settlement forms part of the great 

 prison. 



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THK BAttRACKS, NORFOLK ISLAND. 



The actual settlers occupy the houses which were built 

 by government for the use of the officials attached to the 

 penal settlement. The greater part of them are in need of 

 repair ; but, unluckily, the trowel and the hod are, as yet, 

 mysteries unrevealed to the islanders. Their incapacity in 

 this respect is thought to be accounted for by the indolence 

 so natural in a people, who, at the cost of the least possible 

 exertion, can obtain the satisfaction of the greater part 

 of their wants. A more satisfactory reason surely is that 



