New south Wales* 



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The live-stock and the ground in cultivation, 

 will be seen to have very much increased this 

 year, by the following account of each. 



LIVE-STOCK. 



LAND IN CULTIVATION, 



If to the increase of live-stock, and culti- 

 vated land, could be added an increase of 

 morality or improvement among the convicts, 

 it would afford the mind infinite satisfaction, 

 but alas! the earth itself and the beasts of the 

 field have shown forth the bounty of the creator; 

 while these beings have lived only to profane 

 the name and goodness of him who suffered them 

 to exist. 



On the 2d of January, 1779, several cer- 

 tificates were given to convicts who had com- 

 pleted their terms of transportation ; and 



