274 CIRCULAR HEAD. 



S.S.E. Six Miles. 



This strange projection stands on the eastern 

 side of a small peninsula. On the parts broken off 

 where it joins the sandy hay on the north side, 

 we found the compass perfectly useless, from the 

 increased quantity of magnetic iron ore they contain. 



It is on this point that the head quarters of the 

 Van Diemen's Land Agricultural Company are es- 

 tablished under the charge of a Mr. Curr, whose 

 house with its extensive out-buildings and park, occu- 

 pying some rising ground on the northern part of the 

 point, greets the eye of the stranger, to whom the 

 reflection is forcibly suggested by the sight, that 

 the natural graces of the scene, must soon yield to 

 the restraining regularity with which man marks his 

 conquests from the wilderness. The name of this 

 faint memento of home was, we were informed, 

 Hyfield ; a straggling village occupies a flat to 

 the left, and in the bay on the south side of the head, 

 which is the general anchorage, is a store with 

 a substantial jetty. 



English grasses have been sown at this establish- 

 ment with great success, one acre of ground now 

 feeding four sheep, instead of as before, four acres 

 being required for one; the improvement in the grass 

 was also made evident by the excellent condition 

 in which all the stock appeared to be. 



