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to me : " Whether the condition of the Australian has been improved 

 by his intercourse with the "White man?" The question admits of 

 no doubt or hesitation in framing a reply ; and I regret to say it 

 must be answered in the negative. It is a strange fact, but one no 

 less painful than true, that, wherever the white man plants his foot, 

 the native of the soil gradually disappears. Unable to withstand 

 temptation, he acquires the vices without partaking of the 

 benefits of civilization. To this may be further added the fruits 

 of his own natural spirit of treachery and revenge ; which unhappily 

 neither the civilization nor the Christianity of the white man has 

 affected in any perceptible degree. Incapable of adapting him- 

 self to the changes which agriculture, and a numerous settled 

 population, effect on a wild country, his former means of sub- 

 sistence disappears, and that which has displaced it lies entirely be- 

 yond his reach. Disease and want accordingly work their will on the 

 miserable savage, and his extinction is speedy and inevitable. 



The Australian above all others is specially exposed to these evils, 

 and the last of his race must soon be numbered with the things that 

 were. Already everj^ vestige of the native population of Tasmania 

 has vanished from that beautiful island, although within so recent 

 a period as my visit to it, the Tasmauian was still to be seen living 

 on his native soil. The various tribes on the coasts of Australia are 

 fast following in his wake, and most of those who form the subject of 

 this paper, have, I believe, by this time passed away from that strange 

 world of the Southern Ocean, which is now so rapidly filling with a 

 new and hardy population of industrious settlers, derived — it may 

 almost be said without figure of speech — from every nation under 

 heaven ; but controlled and guided in the progress of civilization by 

 the hardy, practical Anglo-Saxon race. 



DISCOVERT OF INDIAN REMAINS, COUNTY NORFOLK, 

 CANADA WEST. 



BY DANIEL WILSON, LL.D. 

 PBOFESSOE OF HISTOET AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, TORONTO. 



During the progress of agricultural operations in the course of 

 last autumn, Mr. James W. Wilson, a farmer resident on the third lot, 

 thirteenth concession, in the township of Windham, County Norfolk, 

 ploughed up a skeleton, along with Indian relics, some of the charac- 

 teristics of which are peculiar, and calculated to confer a special in- 



