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ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY 



[October^ 



CHAP. XII. 



THE BODDINGTON AND SUGAR-CANE SAIL. — A MILL ERECTED. — THEFTS 

 COMMITTED. 1 — TWO PERSONS KILLED BY LIGHTNING.- — THE FAIRY AR- 

 RIVES. — FARMS SOLD. — THE FRANCIS RETURNS FROM NEW ZEALAND.— 



RATION ALTERED. TRANSACTIONS. HARVEST BEGUN. — CRIMINAL 



COURT HELD. A CONVICT EXECUTED. — PROVISIONS. NATIVE5. — CON- 

 VICTS. GRANTS OF LAND. — SETTLERS. EXPENCES HOW TO BE CALCU- 

 LATED. DEATHS IN I793. — PRICES OF GRAIN, STOCK, AND LABOUR. 



MURDER COMMITTED. — PROVISIONS. — STORM AT PARRAMATTA, CROPS. 



A SETTLEMENT FIXED AT THE HAWKESBURY, NATIVES. — THE FRANCIS 



RETURNS FROM NORFOLK ISLAND INFORMATION. THE NEW ZEALAND 



NATIVES SENT TO THE i R OWN COUNTRY. DISTURBANCE AT NORFOLK 



ISLAND. — COURT OF ENQUIRY AT SYDNEY. THE FRANCIS RETURNS TO 



NORFOLK ISLAND. — NA FIVES TROUBLESOME. STATE OF PROVISIONS. 



QN the 13th of October the Boddington and Sugar-Cane failed for 

 Bengal, purpofing to follow in the Atlantic's track. The mafter of 

 the former was furnifhed with the copy of a chart made on board the 

 Pitt Indiaman, and brought to Sydney by the Britannia, of a pafTage 

 or channel found by that fhip in the land named by Lieutenant Short- 

 land New Georgia ; which channel was placed in the latitude of 8° 

 30' S. and in the longitude of 158 0 30' E. and named " Manning's 



difcontinued for the purpofe of ifluing it as flour ; to accomplifh which, 

 a mill had been conftructed by a convict, whofe abilities as a mill- 

 wright had hitherto laid dormant, and perhaps would longer have con- 



Straits." 



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tinued 



