[146] Barnes: Par. Pap., 1837.

[147] Ibid.

[148] Tasmanian Journal, vol. ii. p. 205.

[149] Backhouse's Narrative.

[150] Ibid.

[151] They called to the men, as they ascended the scaffold—"Good-by, Bob; good-by, Jack."—Par. Pap.

[152] To describe this region, requires the awful coloring of Milton:—

"Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death,
Where all life dies; death lives; and nature breeds
Perverse; all monstrous, all prodigious things;
Abominable; unutterable!"

Paradise Lost, book ii.

[153] Sydney Cove, 17th July, 1790.