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the ifland. His wheat was cut, the firft of it on the 25th of November,, 

 and the harveft was well got in by Chriflmas-day. About two thou- 

 fand bufhels were the calculated produce of this crop, which would 

 have been greater but for the want of rain. Of the maize, the firft 

 crop (having always two) was gathering while the fchooner was there, 

 and, notwithstanding the drought, turned out well ; from one acre and 

 a quarter of ground, one hundred and fix bufhels had been gathered ; 

 but it was pretty generally eftablifhed on the ifland, that thirty-fix 

 bufhels of maize might be taken as the average produce of an acre of 

 ground. 



The fuperior fertility of the foil at Norfolk Ifland to that of New 

 South Wales had never been doubted. The following account of the 

 laft year's crop was tranfmitted by Lieutenant Governor King : 



From November 1792 to November 1793 the crop of maize 

 amounted to - - 3 2 47 bufhels. 



Wheat - - - 1302 ditto. 



Calavances - - 50 ditto.. 



Purchafed in the above time from fettlers and others, at five (hillings 

 per bufhel, - - 3600 bufhels. 



Referved by them for feed 3000 ditto of maize. 



300 ditto of wheat.- 

 300 ditto of calavances, and' 

 50 tons of potatoes. 

 Which, together with three hundred and five bufhels of maize brought 

 from thence with the detachment of the New South Wales corps at the 

 relief in March, made a total of 10,152 bufhels of maize, 



1602 ditto wheat, 

 350 ditto calavances, 

 50 tons potatoes, 



raifed on Norfolk Ifland in one twelve-month, or! about two hundred 

 and fifty-fix acres of ground. 



Of this crop, and of what had been purchafed, there remained in 

 the public ftores, when the fchooner left the ifland, forty»three weeks 5 



maize 



