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instantly filled ; and on the 13th, the sick list 

 was augmented to 488 persons. The convicts 

 whose health would permit, were sent to be 

 employed at Rose-Hill, with a detachment of 

 the New South Wales corps. 



The Governor this month, marked out land 

 for a town at Rose-Hill, one street of which 

 was to be a mile in extent, and 205 feet wide. 

 At the same time, every one was busy at Syd- 

 ney, discharging the transports, by which 

 Lieut. Riou, sent from the Cape of Good Hope 

 400 tierces of beef j and 200 of pork, saved from 

 the Guardian's wreck, which with the flour re- 

 ceived by the Juliana, was all that could be 

 preserved of the invaluable cargo ; a brick store* 

 house was built this month, and a road formed 

 from the brick kilns to the buildings. The Sur- 

 prize and Justinian were ordered to Norfolk 

 Island, as the Lady Juliana wanted repairs. The 

 Justinian sailed on the 28th of July, with pro- 

 visions and stores, and after landing them, was 

 to proceed to Canton to freight home. By this 

 ship the Governor forwarded dispatches, and 

 the Lady Juliana being by great exertion re- 

 paired, sailed in a few days on the same course. 

 The Governor received by these ships official 

 instructions, respecting the distribution of land, 

 to those of the marines, who wished to become 

 settlers in the country : every non-commissioned 

 officer was to have 130 acres if single, and 

 150 if married : to every private 80 acres if 

 single, and 100 if married; and 10 acres for 



