€ ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY J1787. 



Prickly pear, — -plant with the cochineal on it. 



Eugenia, or pomme-rofe, — a plant bearing a fruit in fhape 



like an apple, and having the flavour and odour of a rofe. 

 Ipecacuanha, — three forts. 

 Jalap. 



At the Cape of Good Hope. 

 The fig tree. 

 Bamboo. 

 Spanim reed. 

 *Sugar cane. 

 Vines, of various forts. 

 Quince. 

 Apple. 

 Pear. 



Strawberry. 



Oak. 



Myrtle. 



During the flay of the fleet at the Cape, Captain Hunter deter* 

 mined the longitude of the Cape-Town in Table-Bay to be, by the 

 mean of feverai lets of lunar obfervations taken on board the Sirius 

 2 3' 5S" ^afl from Greenwich. 



Having remained in this laft port of refrefhment juft four weeks, 

 and every thing being arranged for its departure, the fleet proceeded 

 with a fair wind towards New South Wales, the place of its final 

 deftination. 



It was natural for the thinking part of the colonics to indulge at this 

 moment a melancholy reflection which obtruded itfelf upon the mind. 

 The land behind them was the abode of a civilized people j that before 

 them was the relidence of favages : when, if ever, they might again en- 

 joy the commerce of the world, was very uncertain. The refrefhments 

 and pleafures of which they had fo liberally partaken at the Cape, were 

 to be exchanged for coarfe fare and hard labour at New South Wales. 

 All communication with families and friends now cut off, they were 

 ^ leaving 



