58 HISTORY OF 



When these boards fell down, Governor 

 Philiip had the inscription engraved on copper, 

 and put in the same place. A wharf was now 

 began, for landing goods, and the ordnance, 

 which consisted'*. of two brass six pounders 

 on. travelling carriages, four iron twelve 

 pounders, ?-aud two iron six pounders, were 

 brought on shore. The transports which Mere 

 chartered for: China fegan to clear. A gang of 

 convicts were employed about the head of 

 Long Cove to make bricks, near which two 

 acres of ground were cleared for- such officers, 

 as wished to raise grain for their- stock, as no 

 grants of land were to be made, until an account 

 of the country had been taken. That necessity 

 which obliged them to suffer the livestock to 

 range about the tents,' was the cause of great 

 inconvenience, for the hogs in particular made 

 way into them, and destroyed every thing they 

 met with. These damages were at first made 

 good from the. store, but, that opening the door 

 to impositions, an order was given, to kill any 

 hog caught so trespassing. The main street 

 for a town was marked out of extensive dimen- 

 sions. 



The Supply returned from Norfolk Island on 

 the 19th, after an^absence of 4 weeks and 6 clays. 

 She reached the island on the 29thof last month, 

 but in consequence of the great' surf they could 

 not land till the 5th day after, and then could 

 not pitch a tent till they had cleared the ground. 

 The bay he landed in, and fixed the* settlement, 

 he called Sydney Bay,* and the two small 



