Statistics of Van Diemens Land. 105 



Gardeners and farm labourers 16 per cent. 



Domestic servants 7 „ 



Military 3| 



Convicts at Punishment Stations 5^ „ 



Unenumerated 55 „ 



One is struck with the large number excluded from classi- 

 fication, and at first led to think that the grouping must be 

 defective which fails to designate the avocations of more than 

 one-half the population. But it must be borne in mind 

 that all the children under 14 years of age have to be 

 deducted, and also the married females in the majority of 

 cases, which will leave only about 15 per cent, whose occu- 

 pation is unaccounted for. 



Table 5 is a return of the number of Houses in the Colony, 

 more than half of which remain of wood, notwithstanding 

 that such erections have been in numerous instances replaced 

 by substantial buildings of brick and stone. There are 

 10,187 houses in all, of which 5f per cent, are unfinished, 

 and %\ per cent, uninhabited. Taking the population, the 

 number occupying each house would average 7 ; a propor- 

 tion that will be greatly lessened when the large numbers 

 confined in prisons and barracks are considered. The hand- 

 some and spacious buildings in our towns, and scattered 

 through the country, excite the admiration of most visitors 

 to Van Diemen's Land ; and it may not be too much to say, 

 that there is no Colony, of comparative size and population, 

 which excels this in the taste and style of its public build- 

 ings. The abundance of excellent stone and other materials, 

 together with the number of well-skilled artjzans, have of 

 course greatly contributed to this superiority. 



Table 6 relates to the Aborigines of the Colony, who are 

 now located at Oyster Cove. The dwindling down in their 

 numbers from 210 in 1835, to 54 in 1842, and now to 12 

 men and 23 women, with 8 children, tends to create the 



