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Government, between every allotment, referved to itfelf a fpace 

 equal to the largeft grant,, on either fide, which, as Crown land, was 

 not to be granted, but leafed only to individuals for the term of 

 fourteen years. 



Provilion was made for the chureh, by allotting in each town- 

 fhip, which mould be marked out, four hundred acres for the main- 

 tenance of a minifter; and half of that number was to be allotted for 

 the maintenance of a fchool-maRer. If the allotment mould, happea 

 to be made on the banks of an,y navigable river, care was to be takeu 

 that the breadth of each track did not extend along the banks more 

 than one-third of the length of fuch track, in order that no fettler 

 fhould engrofs more than his proportion of the benefit which would 

 accrue from fuch a fituation. And it was directed, that the good and- 

 the bad land mould be as equally divided as circumftances would allow.. 

 The original inftru&ions (under which each male convict emanci- 

 pated or difcharged, if Tingle, was to have thirty, if married, fifty,, 

 and ten acres for every child that he might have at the time of 

 fettling,) remained in- force. 



The particular conditions required by the Crown from a fettler 

 were, the refiding upon, the ground, proceeding to the improvement 

 and cultivation of his allotment, and refer ving fuch of the timber 

 thereof as might be fit for naval purpofes for the ufe of his 

 Majefty. 



About the latter end of July a fpermaceti whale was feen in the 

 harbour, and fome boats went after it with harpoons ; but, from the 

 ignorance of the people in the ufe of them, the fifh efcaped unhurt. 

 In a few days afterwards a punt belonging to one of the officers was 

 purfued by a whale and overfet ; by which accident a midfhipman of 

 the Sirius and two foldiers were unfortunately drowned. 



The fick lift now confifted of only three hundred and thirty-two 

 perfons, and was found to be daily decreafing : the mortality was in- 

 finitely lefs at the end than at the beginning of the month. 



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