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sources of timer and flax. They arrived on 26.01.1788. Things were hard for them and food was short.
Things gradually improved and a second and third fleet arrived in years 1790 and 1791. Convicts
worked on government land but since 1973 those who behaved well were freed and given land. The
first free settlers arrived also that year.
Relatively few new people were sent to Australia during the long wars with France from 1793 to
1815. The second governor was John Hunter in 17951800 and he was followed by Philip King. Under
King the first colonists settled in Tasmania in 1803, Tasmania was then called Van Diemens Land. In
1813 a path was discovered through the Blue Mountains, that enabled them to spread inland. By 1825
the White population of Australia was about 25,000 with Tasmania having 4,500. The transportation
location was again changed to Western Australia and it continued till 1868. The system of granting
land ended in 1831. From then on land was sold.
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