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VALUE OF CONVICT LABOUR — DISPOSITION OF CONVICTS ON ARRIVAL— ALLOWANCES 

 TO CONVICT SERVANTS — WORKING OF THE ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM — SEPARATION OF 

 FEMALE CONVICTS FROM THEIR CHILDREN— FACTORY AT PARAMATTA— ITS DISCIPLINE 

 —CHILDREN IN THE FACTORY— IRON-GANGS— CAPTAIN MACONOCHIE'S SOCIAL SYSTEM 

 —ITS OPERATION— ITS PARTIAL ADOPTION AT SYDNEY, AND AT NORFOLK ISLAND— TWO 

 DIFFERENT FORMS OF SOCIAL SYSTEM— CONDITION OF CONVICTS AND SOLDIERS COM- 

 PARED—TICKET OF LEAVE -MEN — DISTINCTIONS IN SOCIETY — FREE EMIGRANTS — 

 LABOURING CLASS OF FREE EMIGRANTS — CRIMPS — HIGHER CLASS OF SOCIETY — 

 GOVERNOR, HOW APPOINTED, AND FOR WHAT TERM — HIS POWERS — HIS SUCCESSOR 

 IN CASE OF DEATH OR ABSENCE — LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL — COLONIAL RULES AND 

 REGULATIONS— EXPENDITURE AND MODE OF TAXATION — WORKING OF THE LEGISLA- 

 TIVE SYSTEM— STATUTE OF NEW SOUTH WALES— DESIRE FOR A NEW CONSTITUTION— 

 BOUNTY' ON IMMIGRATION— EMIGRATION— MODE OF PROCURING GRANTS OF LAND — 

 STATE OF CRIME IN NEW SOUTH WALES— JUDGE BURTON'S CHARGE— HIS REPORT ON 

 THE JURY SYSTEM — OPINIONS OF OTHER JUDGES — COURTS OF LAW — EDUCATION — 

 BISHOPRIC OF NEW SOUTH WALES— COLLEGES 211—251 



CHAPTER VIII. 



JAUNT TO PARAMATTA— DESCRIPTION OF THAT PLACE— OBSERVATORY— GOVERNMENT- 

 HOUSE, AND FARM— VISIT OF NATURALISTS TO ILLAWARRA— WOOLONGONG— VEGETA- 

 TION OF ILLAWARRA— LAKE ILLAWARRA — JAUNT OF MESSRS. HALE AND AGATE TO 

 HUNTER'S RIVER — TOWN OF NEWCASTLE — COAL MINES — CONVICT MARRIAGES — 

 CONVICT STOCKADE — NATIVES — JOURNEY TO LAKE MACQUARIE — MR. THRELKELD — 

 MACQUARIE LAKE — CONVICT SERVANTS— M'GILL, THE NATIVE — SHEEP -SHEARING- 

 VISIT TO PEUEN BEUEN— BANKS OF HUNTER RIVER— MR. HALE'S JOURNEY TO WEL- 

 LINGTON VALLEY — MAIL CARRIAGE — POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT — PENRITH — BLUE 

 MOUNTAINS — MOUNT VICTORIA — VALLEY OF CLWYD — BATHURST — LAKES — BUSH 

 RANGERS — WELLINGTON — NATIVE CHILDREN — MR. WATSON — SHEEP-SHEARING — 

 PROFITS OF SHEEP-FARMS— FLOODS OF THE MACQUARIE— POPULATION OF THE WEST — 

 NATIVE LANGUAGES — MR. PEALE'S JOURNEY — CLIFTON — CAPTAIN M'ARTHUR — HE 

 INTRODUCES THE FINE-WOOL SHEEP — LIVERPOOL — DAM IN COOK'S RIVER — NEPEAN 

 RIVER— BIRDS— WALLABIES— STRATHARA— BIRDS— DECREASE OF NATIVE ANIMALS-VISIT 

 TO NEWINGTON — SALT-WORKS— PREVALENCE OF SALT IN AUSTRALIA— DECREASE OF 

 LAKES — ANCIENT FLOODS-DESCRIPTION OF FISSURES — EARTHQUAKES — BURNING 

 MOUNTAIN— TRADE OF NEW SOUTH WALES— FISHERIES — BANKS — EXPORTS — DEPOTS 

 FOR GRAIN— COLONY AT SWAN RIVER— SOUTH AUSTRALIA— FETE AT FORT MACQUARIE 

 — SURPRISE OF THE COLONISTS AT OUR WANT OF PREPARATION - STATE OF THE 

 PEACOCK-ARRIVAL OF H. B. M SHIP DRUID— SEASON OF OUR VISIT-FACILITIES FOR 

 OUTFITS AT SYDNEY— KINDNESS AND HOSPITALITY OF CITIZENS— CHRISTMAS DINNER 



—DEPARTURE OF THE SQUADRON— DESERTERS FOUND ON BOARD 255—294 



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