Watermills, Hobart, Tasmania, 1826-1829.

Lithograph by Leborne after de Sainson, showing water-powered mills for grinding wheat. Tasmania was named Van Diemen's Land in the 1640s, and later became a penal colony. Illustration from 'Voyage de decouvertes de "l'Astrolabe": execute par ordre du roi, pendant les annees 1826-1827-1828-1829' by French navigator Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), published in Paris in 1833. The book, (in English, 'Voyage of discovery of the "Astrolabe": undertaken by order of the king, during the years 1826-1829'), is an account of a scientific expedition to the Pacific. Illustration from the atlas section of the book.