CHAPTER XII

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Inhabitants of Australian Colonies--What seed has been there sown-- Elements of Society in the Penal Colonies--Convicts--System of Assignment--Public Gangs--Mr. Potter Macqueen's Establishment--Norfolk Island and its horrors--These have been mitigated of late years--Means of reforming Convicts--Prevalence of Vice among them--The class of Convicts called _specials_ described.

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