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wine, fpirits, tobacco, teas, fugar, hardware, 

 wearing apparel, &c. and were publicly sold. 



By*these ships had been imported 59,294? 

 gallons of spirits, 30,896 ditto of wines, out 

 of which were landed 26,974 ditto of fpirits, 

 8,896 dito of wines ; and 32,320 ditto of spi- 

 rits, 22,000 ditto of wines, were sent away. 



By information from Norfolk Island intelli- 

 gence was received, that a plot was fortunately 

 difcovered, on the 14th of December 1800, 

 formed by some of the convicts to murder the 

 officers, and, by getting possession of the 

 island,, to liberate themselves. Two of the 

 ringleaders were immediately executed, and 

 others properly punished. 



Major Foveaux, the lieutenant-governor, had 

 found the truly desirable long wanted and un- 

 known acquisition, a good landing-place for 

 boats and small vessels, in Anson's Bay, where 

 there were four and five fathoms of water only 

 a few yards from the shore, with a fine sandy 

 beach, and a free passage from rocks or shoals. 



Having at length brought down the History 

 of New South Wales in regular progression, 

 to the close of the eighteenth century, I shall 

 here desist from following the routine of the 

 regular relation of events, and leave the coun- 

 try in its settled state, and I shall now proceed 

 to the Natural Hiftory of the Island; that 

 done, I shall, in a concluding Chapter, give a 

 continuance of the Hiftory, from the beginning 

 of the year 1801, till the time I forwarded the 

 manuscript to England* 

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