Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VAN DIEMEN’S LAND. This is an island, about the size of Ireland, situated off the southern ex- tremity of New Holland, and contain- ing a British coleny subordinate to the principal establishment on that conti- nent. The natives of Van Diemen’s Land, one of whom is represented in the oppo- site plate, appear from the general re- port of voyagers to be mild and cheerful but almost wholly devoid of personal activity or genius. ‘Their complexion is a dull black, which they sometimes heighten by smutting their bodies with