?6< ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [December, 



from other cloven feet by the great width of the divifion in each. Hs 

 was not fortunate enough to fee the animal that had made them; 



In this journey Lieutenant Dawes's line of march, unfortunately 

 and unpleafantly for him, happened to lie, nearly from hisfetting out, 

 acrofs a line of high and fleep rocky precipices, which, required much 

 caution in defending, as well as labour in afcending. Perhaps an 

 open country, which might have led him readily and conveniently to 

 the point which he propofed to attain, was lying at no great diftance 

 from him either to his right or left. To feeLfor that, however, might 

 have required more time than his flock of provifions would have ad- 

 mitted ; and he was compelled to return through the fame unprofit- 

 able country which he had palled. 



On the 2 ill of December, the Supply returned from Norfolk Man d, 

 having been abfent fix weeks. Lieutenant King wrote,, that he ex^ 

 peeled his harveft would produce from four to fix months' flour for 

 all his inhabitants^ exclufive of a referve of double feed for twenty 

 acres of ground. Befides this promifmg appearance, he had ten acres 

 in cultivation with Indian corn, which- looked very well. His gar- 

 dens had fullered much by the grub-worm and from a want of rain, 

 of which they had had fcarcely any fince the 2 3d of September.. The 

 ground which was cleared for the Grown amounted to about twenty- 

 eight acres, and he was bufied in preparations for building a redoubt- 

 on an eminence named by him Mount George. 



The Supply, in her vifit at Lord Howe Ifland,. turned eighteen 

 turtle 5 feveral of which, unluckily, dying before fhe reached Norfolk 

 Ifland, fhe could leave only four there, and but three furvived the 

 fhort voyage from thence to Port Jackfom 



The working convicts at Sydney had lately been' principally em- 

 ployed in conflrucl:ing two convenient kitchens and ovens for the ufe 

 of the detachment, adjoining to the quarters ; building a houfe for 

 the Judge-advocate ; forming roads either in or leading to the town;, 

 and removing the provifions from the old thatched ftorehoufe to that 

 in the marine quarters, which, being , covered with tiles, was not fo 



liable 



