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prevailed in the town of Sydney, every one driving to make their 

 abode among them as cheerful as pofhble, and to convince them, that 

 though fevered from the mother-country, and refiding in woods and 

 among favages, they had not forgotten the hofpitalities due to a 

 ftranger. 



On the 21ft,. the Kitty returned from Norfolk Ifland. Governor 

 King had fent back in her a number of free people and convicts,, 

 having been defired to get rid of any fuch characters as might be 

 dangerous or troublefome to him* 



This gentleman wrote very favourably of the fettlement under his 

 command* The crops had been fo abundant as to infure him a fuf~ 

 ficiency of wheat and maize for the next twelve months. The in- 

 habitants were healthy, and the behaviour of the convicts had m 

 general merited commendation. 



Lime-ftone having been found in great abundance, enabled Mr*. 

 King to erect buildings with more extent and fecurity than had hi- 

 therto been done in New South Wales : feveral cafks of this ufeful ar- 

 ticle were now imported in the Kitty, with a quantity of plank- 

 Eight of the marine fettlers, whofe grounds, on extending the lines 

 ©f their allotments, were found to interfect each other, and who had 

 declined fuch accommodation as Governor King thought it proper to 

 offer them, had refigned their farms, and preferred returning to their, 

 former profefhon,. 



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