VOLUME I
Reading edition
TASMANIA:
HENRY DOWLING, LAUNCESTON
1852
TASMANIA: PRINTED BY J. S. WADDELL, LAUNCESTON.
Facsimile edition 1966
TO HENRY HOPKINS, OF HOBART TOWN, ESQ.,
THE
HISTORY OF TASMANIA,
UNDERTAKEN AT HIS REQUEST, IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED
BY
THE AUTHOR.
Launceston, September, 1852.
ADVERTISEMENT
The author takes this opportunity to thank the gentlemen who have allowed him, for several years, the use of their works on the colonies, and valuable original papers; especially the trustees of Lady Franklin's Museum, Messrs. R. Lewis, Hone, Gunn, Joseph Archer, Henty, P. Roberts, Wooley, and Pitcairn.
The public are indebted to Ronald Gunn, Esq., for the section on Tasmanian Zoology; and to Mr. F. Wales for a useful list of the chief places in this country.