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CHAP. V. ■ 



Ox Governor Phillip le|ving the ..island, land 

 had been granted to settlers, amounting to 

 3470 acres, of which 43 7-J- acres was cultivated, 

 and the timber was cleared from 100 acres 

 more, and 1012- acres only was cleared and in 

 cultivation on the public account, which shews, 

 that a small number of convicts, working on 

 their own accounts, effected more good than 

 the whole body did while labouring for govern- 

 ment; but as so much was got in a proper 

 state for cultivation, it foretold, that at no 

 very distant date, the colony would be able to 

 support itself, without assistance from the mo- 

 ther country. Previous to his departure, Go- 

 vernor Phillip gave to each married settler from 

 the convicts, and to every settler from the 

 marines and from the Sirius, a ewe for breeding, 

 and to others such goats as could be spared. 

 These liberal presents, which might have been 

 productive of such great comfort to these 

 people, where however soon offered for sale, 

 and had not the officers bought them, a few 

 days would have put out of existence, a stock 

 which had been procured with emense trouble, 

 and great expense. The Government of the 



