name and county of Cornwall,
115 miles from Hobart and 11 from Launceston. It is prettily situated
on the eastern side of the South Esk, and contains several substantial
brick buildings, three large inns, and a steam flour mill. It has a
resident magistrate and a post station. There are two well-built, neat,
and commodious churches (episcopalian and presbyterian), a Wesleyan
chapel, and a good subscription library.

_Evercreech_--a township in the parish of that name, and county of
Cornwall, about 120 miles from Hobart.

_Exeter_--a village on the west bank of the Tamar, about 15 miles below
Launceston.

_Falmouth_--a township near St Patrick's Head, in Cornwall, on the
eastern coast, 141 miles from Hobart and 104 from Launceston. There is a
post station here and an inn. The produce of some of the farms on the
coast is forwarded to Hobart by sea from this place.

_Fingal_--a township in the parish of Fingal and county of Cornwall, on
the southern side of the South Esk. It is 100 miles from Hobart and 70
from Launceston. The road from Campbell Town to the east coast passes
through it. On the banks of the Esk in this district are many fine
farms, as well as tracts of pasture land. There is a resident police
magistrate and a post station at Fingal, and two inns. There are 877
persons in the township and district, and 134 houses. About 11 miles
beyond Fingal the road has been carried with immense labor, to a
distance of 5 miles round the face of a high, rocky, and almost
perpendicular hill, called St. Mary's Pass. On one side the hill towers
above the traveller, and on the other he sees a precipice of many
hundred feet. Gold has been discovered in the neighborhood.

_Forth_--a fine river in Devon, falling into Bass' Strait, between the
Mersey and the Leven.

_Frankland_--the name of a range of hills on the western side of the
island. A mountain called the Frenchman's Cap, 3,800 feet high, is near
this range.

_Franklin_--a township on the river Huon, in the county of Buckingham,
about 28 miles from Hobart and 149 from Launceston. It has an assistant
police magistrate, an episcopal church and school, and a post station.

_Franklin_--a village on the main road, 117 miles from Hobart and 3 from
Launceston. It contains a small church, an excellent private school, and
two inns. About half a mile on the south side of the village there is a
substantial stone bridge crossing a deep ravine.

_George Town_--a town in the p