420 HISTORY OF 



The strength of the public gangs did not 

 permit their being further employed, or it was 

 meant to have built a water-mill at Paramatta. 



A court-house at the same place, and two 

 new stores, with a guard-house at the Green 

 Hills. The stores were of brick, and the 

 guard-house of weather ■boards. 



In the district of Portland Place, a stocks 

 yard, consisting of 30 acres, was inclosed with 

 posts and rails, and included four chains of 

 fresh -water ponds. 



In the naval department, a vessel was left on 

 the stocks, designed to be pf 150 or 160 tons 

 burthen, and intended for the purpose of tak- 

 ing the relief to and from Norfolk Island. 



A boat called the Cumberland was on the 

 stocks, and nearly finished, of 27 tons burthen, 

 meant to be schooner rigged and armed, for the 

 pursuit of deserters, who were in the practice pf 

 carrying away the boats of the settlement. 



In this account of the labour performed 

 for the pub/lie, under Governor Hunter, is 

 not estimated the time employed for the 

 preparation of the earth for sowing, and the 

 gathering in pf the harvests ; so that it must 

 indeed be considered, with no small degree 

 of astonishment, that such a number of 

 buildings should have, by any exertions, been 

 effected, when proper allowance is made for 

 the dispositions of those, who only could be 

 employed in either building or repairing, and 

 when added to the deduction, which thresh- 

 ing out the corn for delivery, and unloading 



