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Alt's successor was Mr. Charles Grimes, who had been Surveyor 

 at Norfolk Island, and thence forward he carried on the surveys, 

 and prepared plans for public buildings, besides laying out new 

 roads. One of these roads extended from Parramatta to Mulgrave 

 on the Hawkesbury River, where a very early settlement was 

 established. Mr. Grimes lived at Parramatta, where he was for 

 some years a resident magistrate. 



In Governor King's time, Francis Barrallier, an Ensign of the 

 New South Wales Corps, who had studied engineering and sur- 

 veying, was given charge of the batteries and defences of the 

 harbour. He designed the Parramatta Orphanage and made the 

 first survey of the Hunter River in June 1801. Before the end 

 of the same year he was surveying Western Port, in what is now 

 T'ictoria. In 1802 he made made two trips over part of the Blue 

 Mountains. It is apparently only by the recent researches that 

 have been made, and which have resulted in Barrallier's charts 

 being unearthed, that his forgotten name and works are now 

 again on record. 



Ensign George Bellasis succeeded Barrallier as Artillery Officer, 

 he appears to have built the Battery on Dawes Point, and to have 

 been engaged with batteries on Middle Head and Georges Head, 

 as well as one on Benelong Point, now Fort Macquarie. 



1804 Governor King began Fort Phillip on the Flagstaff Hill. 

 In 1806 Lieutenant W. Minchin, Engineer and Artillery Officer, 

 carried on the Fort Phillip work, and also built or repaired a stone 

 bridge at Bridge-street which had replaced the timber bridge of Alt. 

 This small stone arch as finally rebuilt in 1811 by Macquarie, is 

 clearly seen in one of the early prints of the town of Sydney that 

 has lately been reproduced. 



During the interregnum of Grose and Patterson, and the 

 Governorship of Hunter and King, the directions of the Home 

 Office with regard to reserving the whole of the town of Sydney 

 for the Crown, were violated. Phillip had acted up to his instruc- 

 tions, and had established a Common, which included what is now 



