HISTORY OF TASMANIA
TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION
SECTION I
Transportation, considered not as a question of national policy but as a fact, demands a place in this record. It will be our object to ascertain those incidents which illustrate its local operation—to trace events that have attended the repeated changes in its colonial spirit. It belongs to the British statesman to scan its effects on the population of the empire; but fairly to exhibit its Australasian aspect, will not be without utility to the colonies themselves.
Although a separate relation will derange the thread of Tasmanian history, the reader may be compensated by a view more perspicuous and useful.