An important reference book on early Tasmania. It consists of 255 pages jam packed with all kinds of information relating to Tasmania - and also the world - as it was in 1849. The alphabetical table of contents alone covers 9 pages of subjects covered.
To note just a small sampling of these:
- advertisements (27 pages of these)
- agents - shipping, customs, emigration
- agricultural societies
- auctioneers
- banks
- bathing association
- British army in South Eastern hemisphere
- British colonies
- cattle and sheep
- chemists and druggists
- churches (each denomination)
- coaches, mail and stage
- convicts - department, ships
- counties in VDL
- courts
- register office for births marriages, deaths
- dog licences
- educational establishments
- factories, male & female
- families of convicts passage
- fleas - remedy for
- Fort St George
- gaols and officers
- government officers
- Hobart market
- hospitals
- justices of the peace
- Launceston (various institutions)
- mail coaches - and contractors
- newspapers - list of
- notaries public
- police department (notes on district offices)
- Port Arthur
- schools
- shipping - agents arrivals & departures, convicts
- societies (various)
- statistics - many pages so these
- townships in VDL
- wages - average rates of
- wheat
... plus 800 other subject heads.
The whole 255 page volume is searchable on any word - name, place or any other word in the text and advertisements
Originally produced by Archive CD Books Australia in 2003, this title has now been remastered and re-released, and includes better searching capability. This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole of the original book, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book
Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s.
Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.
