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A new and very powerful interest has of late become conjoined with that with which books partaking of the nature of Voyages and Travels have in all times been regarded . While it is quite as pleasant as ever it was to follow narratives of adventure and to
have the imagination treated with pictures of the beauty of newlydiscovered shores , of waters which have till now made solitary music , of forests which have whispered only to each other , of hills and dales , and rocks ,, and waterfalls , which have for ages awaited the presence of the master who is come at last , there is a further interest in such scenery from its being the probable
exchange for the crowded workhouses , the sordid hovels or the loathsome city abodes of thousands of our crushed and almost hopeless population at home . We familiarize ourselves with every new scene in unappropriated lands , with the hope that it may prove the refuge of those to whom their native land is only a place to pine and die in . We measure distances , we calculate
resources , we devour all facts that may serve as practical guides , in order to see what room may be allowed to hope ^ and how far we may be justified in indulging in ourselves and communicating to others a happy expectation of relief to the crowds of sufferers who here must suffer on till they die . We would fain show them that , on this side the grave , there is a better land , and send them
to seek it . In these times , when such of the poor as have any hope left are looking up to their superiors for the direction of it , and when these their well-wishers are anxiously gazing abroad for knowledge on which to ground their advice , no public benefactors deserve more gratitude than those who furnish us with the infor-/ mation we want , who will lay before us the state and capabilities
I of the various regions where we ma y transport our surplus popu-, lation , and enable us to judge what class will be most welcome in one place , what is requisite to the prosperity of settlers in another , and , in short , how we may most safely and expeditiously begin to unload the wheels of our great social machine . Without such guidance , emigration would be attempted and persevered in ,
because the pressure of want at home is becoming irresistible ; but it would be accomplished at a vast expense of suffering and failure , which is already , and will be in a much greater degree , prevented by the authentic information placed within reach of the public . Without the aid of the benefactors just referred to , emigrants would wander forth to take their chance of prospering or perishing while learning the facts which they can now ascertain
* Sketch of the History of Van Diemen ' Land , and an Account of the Van Diemen ' s Land Company . By James Bischoff , Esq , — London , Richardson , 1832 . Sketch of a Plan for , the gradual Extinction of Pauperism , and for the Diminution of Crime , p . 52 . By Rowland Hill . —Simpkin and Marshal ) .
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VAN DIEMEN'S LAND * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/12/
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