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return of the Sirius, but by this deduction 

 labour was not affected. Some convicts were 

 employed in procuring timber to form a bridge, 

 over the stream at the head of the cove. A 

 party of Natives, on the 24th, met a stray con- 

 vict, and threw spears at him, but luckily 

 without effect. Qn having information of this, 

 the Governor went with an armed /party; and 

 hearing some natives in the bushes fired among 

 them, being determined, they should keep 

 from the colony. The Governor, in one of his 

 excursions, discovered some fine land at the 

 head of the cove, which, from its form, he called 

 the Crescent, and having determined to fix a 

 settlement there, on the 2d of November he 

 went to mark out ground for a redoubt and 

 other buildings, and on the 4th 20 convicts, 

 who understood the farming business, were dis- 

 patched to him. This spot was named Rose- 

 Hill, and the earth being of superior quality 

 to that about Sydney Cove, and free from rocks, 

 it promised well for the encrease of grain. The 

 Golden Grove returned on the 10th with very 

 favourable accounts from Norfolk Island ; 

 Lieut. King wrote that his people were healthy, 

 vegetables and fish were in abundance, that his 

 gardens flourished, and the grain last sown pro- 

 mised a line crop. On the lgth, the two store 

 ships sailed for England, by which the Gover- 

 nor sent home dispatches. The redoubt began 

 in July was this month completed, and two 

 pieces of ordnance mounted in it. The convict 

 who fabricated £he story of the gold-mine, had 



