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Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land

Chapter 1: TWO VOYAGES TO NEW SOUTH WALES AND VAN DIEMEN’S LAND, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THAT INTERESTING COLONY: INCLUDING FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO THE STATE AND MANAGEMENT OF CONVICTS OF BOTH SEXES. ALSO REFLECTIONS ON SEDUCTION AND ITS GENERAL CONSEQUENCES.
By Thomas Reid
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A first-person account of two sea voyages transporting convicts to distant penal settlements, blending shipboard diary entries, medical observations, and administrative commentary. The narrator documents daily life and health aboard the transports, the behaviour and management of male and female prisoners, and the application of humane measures and religious instruction as tools for reform. Visits ashore report on colonial conditions and institutional arrangements, while reflective passages consider the causes and consequences of moral decline and offer practical recommendations for improving discipline, welfare, and prospects for rehabilitation.

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Title: Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land

Author: Thomas Reid

Release date: December 1, 2016 [eBook #53643]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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TWO VOYAGES
 
TO
 
NEW SOUTH WALES
 
AND
 
VAN DIEMEN’S LAND,
 
WITH
 
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THAT INTERESTING COLONY:
 
INCLUDING
 
FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO THE STATE AND MANAGEMENT
 
OF
 
CONVICTS OF BOTH SEXES.
 
ALSO
 
REFLECTIONS ON SEDUCTION
 
AND
 
ITS GENERAL CONSEQUENCES.

By THOMAS REID,
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN LONDON, AND SURGEON IN THE ROYAL NAVY.

“He who thinks he sees many around him, whom he esteems and loves, labouring under a fatal error, must have a cold heart, or a most confined notion of benevolence, if he could withhold his endeavours to set them right, from an apprehension of incurring the imputation of officiousness.”-—Wilberforce.

London:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1822.