*4o ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [December, 



any fuch heavy labour as the building of a barrack or a ftorehoufe, 

 exclufive of the fawyers, carpenters, fmiths, painters, glaziers, and 

 ftone-mafons, without whofe labour they could not be completed. 



The expence of vi&ualling and clothing thefe people (both their 

 provifions and the materials for making their clothes being augmented 

 above their prime coft, by freight, and by the coft of what might be 

 damaged and ufelefs) muft be fuppofed to be confiderable ; and muft 

 be taken into account, together with the coft of tools and of fuch ma- 

 terials as were not to be procured in the country, when calculating the 

 expences of the public works ere&ed in that colony. 



There died between the ift of January and the 31ft of December, 

 both inclulive, two fettlers, feven foldiers, feventy-eight male and 

 twenty-fix female convids, and twenty-nine children. One male 

 convid was executed ; fix were loft in the woods ; one was found 

 dead in the woods : one killed by the fall of a tree, and two were 

 killed by lightning; making a decreafe by death and accidents of one 

 hundred and fifty-three perfons. To this decreafe may be added, four 

 male convids, who had found means to efcape from the colony on 

 board of fome of the (hips which had been there. 



The following were the prices of grain, live and dead ftock, gro- 

 cery, fpirits, &c. as they were fold or valued at Sydney, between 

 which and Parramatta there was but a trifling difference. 



GRAIN. VEGETABLES. 



Wheat per bufliel, for cam, 10s. Potatoes per cwt. 10s. 



Ditto in payment for labour, 14s. Ditto per pound, 1 id. 

 Maize per buihel, for cafh, 7s. live and bead stock. 



Ditto, in payment for labour, Ewes (Gape) from 61. to 81. 8s. 



12s. 6d. Wethers (Capejfrom 4I. to 5I. 109* 



Caffre corn, 5s. She goats, full grown, 81. 8s. 



Englifh Sour per pound, 6d. Ditto, half grown, 4I. 4s. 



Flour of the country, for cam, 3d. Male goat, full grown, 2I. 



Ditto, for labour, 4<K Breeding fows, from 3I. to 61. 



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