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Toward the latter end of the month the convicls received a general 

 ferving of clothing, and other neceflary articles. To each male were 

 iflued two frocks made of coarfe and unfubflantial Ofnaburgs, in 

 which there were feldom found more than three weeks wear two 

 pairs of trowfers made of the fame flight materials as the frocks ; one 

 pair of yarn ftockings ; one hat ; one pair of fhoes ; one pound of 

 foap ; and three needles ; a quarter of a pound of thread, and one 

 comb. 



The females received each one cloth petticoat ; one coarfe ftiift ; 

 one pair of fhoes ; one pair of yarn ftockings; one pound of foap ; a 

 quarter of ? pound of thread ; two ounces of pins ; fix needles ; one 

 thimble, and one pair of fciflars. 



Thefe articles were fupplied by com million ; and Mr. Davifon, the 

 perfon employed by government, was limited in the price of each ar- 

 ticle, which was fixed too low to admit of his furnifhing them of the 

 quality abfolutely neceflary for people who were to labour in that 

 country. The frocks and trowfers were particularly complained of j 

 for it was a well-known fad, that they were much oftener worn out 

 within a fortnight than that they lafted three weeks. 



The month clofed with a circumftance that excited no fmall degree 

 of concern in the fettlement : Governor Phillip fignified a determina- 

 tion of quitting his government, and returning to England in the 

 Atlantic. To this he was induced by perceiving that his health hourly 

 grew worfe. His Excellency had the fatisfa&ion, at the moment when 

 he came to this refolution, of feeing the public grounds wear every 

 appearance of a productive harveft. 



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