VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.

This island is as cool as Great Britain; yet it is not a pleasant land to

live in; for it is filled with convicts. There are no natives there now;

they died away gradually, except a few, who were taken by the English to

a small island near, called "Flinder's Island." They were taken there

that they might be safe; yet they never ceased to sigh, and to cry after

their native land.

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