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from the year 1787 to the year 1797 inclusive, stood thus:--

Men and Women. Children. TOTAL.

1787 778 17 795 1789 1251 22 1273 1790 2029 9 2038 1791 408 11 419 1792 412 6 418 1794 82 2 84 1795 133 3 136 1796 279 13 292 1797 393 10 403 ---- -- ---- 5765 93 5858

[Footnote 148: Norfolk Island is a small fertile spot, containing about 14,000 acres of land, situated about 1200 miles distant from Sydney Cove in New South Wales, where the seat of Government is fixed.]

It appears also from another doc.u.ment in the same Report (being the last return of Convicts in the two Settlements) that their numbers stood as stated in the following Table,--

Convicts

Convicts

Convicts

Total

Total

Victualled

Emanc.i.p.ated

Men

and Men Women

Men Women

Men Women

Men Women

Women ----------+----------+-----------+----------+----- In New South }

Wales on the }

31 Aug. 1796 } 1633 755

78 5

20 9

1731 769

2500

In Norfolk }

Island on the}

22 Oct. 1796.} 379 167

53 0

12 3

444 170

614 ---- ---

--- -

-- --

---- ---

----- 2012 922

131 5

32 12

2175 939

3114

To which add the Convicts sent in 1796 and 1797, including Children 695 ---- Total 3809

The diminution of Convicts from 5858 to 3809 is to be accounted for, by a certain proportion leaving the Settlement after the expiration of their time, and also by deaths,[149] which in the natural course of things must be expected.

[Footnote 149: In 21 months after the arrival of the first Convicts in May 1788, there were 77 deaths and 87 births in the whole Settlement.]