Primary tabs
Transcription
[Page 1]
Observations on the Selection of Convicts for Transportation, and on the means of preserving health during the voyage.
Upon the proper selection of Convicts to be transported to New South Wales, the improvement of the colony must almost totally depend. The advice of Lord Bacon upon this subject is worthy of attention "The people wherewith you plant" says his lordship in his essay on Plantations "should be gardeners, ploughmen labourers, smiths, carpenters, joiners, fishermen fowlers, with some few apothecaries surgeons, cooks, and bakers." How little such a selection is attended to, was suffiently exemplified
Current Status:
Completed