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so dry and parching, as completely to throw all our meteorological instruments into disorder. The difference between the wet and dry thermometer, or, in other words, the amount of evaporation in the atmosphere, was as 16. The usual average is about 5o, sometimes it reaches 60 and 70, but here we had it to such an extent that almost everything in the ship became as dry as a chip. The box-wood of the thermometer warped one- eighth of an inch in four, so as nearly to crack the glass tube, and book-backs curled up. The hot air made the nose and eyes exceedingly sore.
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Appendix No. 2.
NUMBER of Male Convicts sent to the Australian Colonies within the under- mentioned periods, from the commencement of each Colony.
Average
per
Aunum.
12 years, from 1788 to Dec. 31, 1799
4,564
.)
10
""
**
1809
2,607
:
4,564
2,607
380
260
/
10
D
"
1819
8,552
1,460
10,012
1,001
10
"
1829 11,880
8,722
20,602
2,060
10
#
1839
18,715
17,222
35,937
3,593
10
"
"
1849
2,307
19,426
21,733
2,173
5
1854
"
297
5,142
3,176
8,615
1,723
1)
JJ
1855
485
485
22
1856
498
498
Average of
48,922
51,972
4,159 105,053
69 years
1,522
!
This table is compiled from three sources: 1st, up to the year 1837 from
a Return appended to the Commons' Report of 1838; up to the year 1847 from a manuscript return procured from the Home Office; from thence to the present time from documents in the Colonial Office.
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