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AT SYDNEY. AT PARR AM ATTA. 



Coffee 2s. to 2s. 6d. per lb. Tobacco grown in the country 



Salt pork per lb. from 8d. to o,d. from is. 6d. to 2s. per lb. 



Tobacco, Brazil, per lb. from 3s. Virginia of Brazil from 4s to 6s. 



to 5s. per lb. 



Soap from 1 s. 6d. to 2s. 6d, per lb. 

 Cheefe from is. 6d. to 2 s. per lb. 



With infinite fatisfacYion it was obferved at the beginning of the 

 month of June, that the mortality and ficknefs among the people had 

 very much decreafed. This was attributed by the medical gentlemen 

 to the quantities of frefh meat which had been obtained at Parramatta 

 by the people who were employed to moot for the hofpital ; fuf- 

 ficiency having been brought in at one time to fupply the fick with 

 frefh meat for a week ; and for the remainder of the month in the 

 proportion of twice or three times a week great quantities of vege- 

 tables had alfo been given to thofe who were in health, as well as to 

 the tick, both from the public ground at the farther fettlement (which 

 had produced mo ft excellent turnips) and from the Governor's gar- 

 den. A fmall quantity of rum had Hkewife been from time to time 

 given to the invalids, and had been obferved to have been of infinite 

 fervice to them. 



Notwithftanding the mortality and ficknefs which had prevailed 

 among the convicts who came in the laft mips, much labour had been 

 performed at the new grounds by thofe who were capable of handling 

 the hoe and the fpade. At this time the quantity of ground in 

 wheat, and cleared and broken up for maize, there and at Parramatta, 

 was fuch as (if not vifited again by a dry feafon), would at leaf!:, com- 

 puting the produce even at what it was the laft year, yield a fuffi- 

 ciency of grain for the prefent number of people during one twelve- 

 month. But every one doubted the poflibility of getting all the corn 

 into the ground within the proper time, unlefs the colony mould be 

 very fpeedily relieved from its diftreffes ; as the further reduction 



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