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 Atlantic returns from- Bengal.— Account received of Bryant and his 

 Companions. - -Ration ft ill further reduced.- Quantity of provifions 

 received from Calcutta.— The Britannia arrives from England. — 

 Ration increafed.— Convict emancipated.— Public works.— The Bri- 

 tannia cleared.— Survey of Provifions.— Intelligence from Norfolk 

 Ifland. ------ - r« - - 10 



X. A vefFel from America arrives.— Part of her cargo purchafed.- George 

 Barrington and others emancipated.— The Royal Admiral fails — 

 Arrival of the Kitty tranfport.— iooi 1. received by her.— Hofpital 

 built at Parramatta.— Harveft begun at Toongabbe.— Ration in- 

 creafed. -State of the cultivation previous to the Governor's de- 

 parture—Governor Phillip fails for England.— Regulations made 

 by the Lieutenant-Governor.— The Hope, an American {hip, arrives. 

 —Her cargo purchafed for the colony.— The Chefterfield whaler 

 arrives.— Extreme heat and conflagration.— Deaths in 1792.— Regu- 

 lations reflecting divine fervice.— The Hope fails.— The Belloria 

 arrives,— Cargo damaged. —Information. -—Two women and a child 

 drowned.— Ration. — Kangooroo ground opened.— Settlers.^-Tranf- 



actions The Shah Hormuzear arrives.— Sicknefs and death — Two 



Spanifh (hips arrive. ------ - - 186 



XI. The Spanifh (hips fail.— The Chefterfield returns from Norfolk' Ifland. 

 — A contract entered into for bringing cattle from India.— The 

 Dsedalus arrives.— Cattle loft.— Difcoveries by Captain Vancouver. — • 

 Two natives of New Zealand brought in.— Bengal (hip fails. — 

 Phoenomenon in the fky.— Lands cleared by officers. — Mutiny on 

 board the Kitty.— His Majefty's birth-day. — State of the provifion 

 ftores. — The Britannia arrives. — Lofs of cattle. — General account 

 of cattle purchafed, loft in the paffage, and landed in New South 

 Wales.— Natives.— The Dsedalus fails for Nootka.— Temporary 

 church founded.— Criminal Court. — Counterfeit dollars in circula- 

 tion.— Two foldiers defer t. — The Boddington arrives. — General 

 Court Martial held.— The Britannia chartered for Bengal.— Irifh 

 convicts fteala boat.— The Sugar-Cane arrives. — Intended mutiny on 

 board prevented.— Excurfion to the weftward. - «... -. 2 ©£ 



XII. The Boddington and Sugar-Cane fail.— A mill erected.— Thefts com- 

 mitted. — Two perfons killed by lightning.— The Fairy arrives.— 

 Farms fold.— The Francis returns from New Zealand.— Ration 

 altered.— Tranfactions.— Harveft begun.— Criminal Court held.— A 



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