%^6 A DESCRIPTION OF NORFOLK ISI,AND.. June ZZ, 



remember above three claps of thunder during the time 

 I was on the ifland. The winter is very pleafant ; and 

 it never freezes. 



The proper time for fowing wheat and barley is from 

 May to Auguft, and is got in December ; that which 

 has been fowed has produced twenty five fold, and I 

 think, the increafe may be greater. Two buftiels of 

 barley fowed in 1789 produced twenty-four bufhels of 

 a found full grain. 



The Indian corn produces well, and is, in my opi- 

 nion, the beft grain to cultivate in any quantity, on ac- 

 count of the little trouble attending its growth, and 

 manufafturing for eating. 



The Rio Janeiro fugar cane grows very well, and ig 

 thriving. 



Vines and oranges are very thriving ; of the former, 

 there will be a great quantity in a few years. 



Potatoes thrive remarkably well, and yield a very 

 great increafe ; I think two crops a year of that article 

 may be got with great eafe. 



Every kind of garden vegetable thrives well, an4 

 pomes to great perfeftion. 



The quantity of ground cleared, and in cultivation, 

 belonging to the public, was, on the 13th March 1790, 

 from twenty-eight to thirty-two acres, and about 

 eighteen cleared by free people and convifts for their 

 gardens. 



Philip Gidley Kiuq. 

 London, ") 



January lo, 1791.% 



