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without a certain and daily fupply of provifions was impofiible. 

 Many of thefe arms, when viewed from the water, ftruck the be- 

 holders with horror at the bare idea of being loft in them ; as, 

 from the great iimilarity of one cove to another, the recollection 

 would be bewildered in attempting to determine any relative fitu- 

 ation. It is certain, that, if deflroyed by no other means, infanity 

 would accelerate the miferable end that muft enfue. 



To guard as much as poffible againft thefe accidents, every meafure 

 which could be fuggefted was adopted. A fhort time after the fettle- 

 men t was eftablifned at Rofe Hill, the Governor went out with fome- 

 people in a direction due South, and caufed a vifible path to be made; 

 that if any per Ion who had ftrayed beyond his own marks for re- 

 turning, and knew not where he was, fhould crofs upon this path, he 

 might by following it have a chance of reaching the fettlement; and 

 orders were repeatedly given to prohibit {haggling beyond the limits 

 which were marked and known. 



The weather during the latter part of May had been cold ; not- 

 withstanding which, a turtle was feen in the harbour. 



The 4th of June was the fecond anniverfary of Ills Majefty's 

 birth-day commemorated in this country, and was obierved with 

 every diftinction in the power of the loyal inhabitants of Port 

 Jackfon. The Governor received the compliments due to the day 

 in his new houfe, of which he had lately taken pofieffion as the 

 government-houfe of the colony, where his Excellency afterwards 

 entertained the officers at dinner, and in the evening fom'e of the 

 convi&s were permitted to perform Farquhar's Comedy of the Re- 

 cruiting Officer, in a hut fitted up for the occaficn. They profeffed 

 no higher aim than " humbly to excite a fmile," and their efforts to 

 pleafe were not unattended with applaufe. 



The Governor, deeming an increafe of the military force of Nor- 

 folk Illand neceffary, difpatched a lieutenant with fourteen privates 

 from the detachment of marines, in the Supply, for that purpofe. 

 This veffel, on her return from Norfolk Illand, was to cruife for the 



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