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NEW HOLLAND. 



nient, would have confirmed or refuted the report, el^ecially as 

 one of them pretended to give an account of the expences; but 

 ■ the detail is {o very imperfect, that I am not able to fatisfy either 

 my own or the reader's curiofity. 



Mr. Ph'/h'p had previoufly taken a moll exad furvey of 

 every part of the propofed place of fettlement ; he found it 

 bad as a port, and from the wet nature cJf the environs, fuf- 

 pedted that the air would affeft the health of the new co- 

 lonifls. He obferved that Captain Cook mentioned a bay, in 

 Lat. 33° 5' fouth, very Httle diilant from the other, which he 



Port Jack- had named Fori Jack/on, and Vv'here he thought there was good 

 anchorage. Mr. Phillip loft no time, but made a thorough ex- 

 amination of that alfo; he found it equal at leaft to our celebrated 

 harbor, Milford Haven, in old Soutb Wales, It opens with an 

 ample mouth, and after fome fpace, divides into two moft exten- 

 Jive meandering branches, with numbers of other fmall bays, 

 creeks, or coves, pointing again to the right and to the left, fo as 

 to form the fineft and molt fecure harbor in the world, capable 

 of containing the navies of Europe itfelf. 



Sydney Here Mr. Phillip determined to eftablifli his colony ; and 



fixing on a place which he named Sydney Cove, began immedi- \ 

 ately to trace the outlines of the firft flr^et of his intended town. 

 The officers live in huts, but houfes are building of brick and 

 ftone ; the governor is very moderate in that defigned for him- 

 felf, which contains only fix rooms. The land allotted for cul- 

 tivation has been found to be very good, and to return on 

 the firft trial two hundred bufliels of wheat, and fixty of 

 ^ barley. 



