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and great colony, poffeffing within itfelf all the effential articles of 

 life. 



Every poiTible care continued to be taken of the grazing cattle ; by 

 an account of which, taken at the clofe of June, the following appeared 

 to have been their numbers, including public and private property i 



Mares 



1 1 



Stallions 



9 



Male affes 



4 



Female ditto 



2 



Bulls - 





Cows 



2 5 



Ewes - 



316 



Rams and wethers 



2 1 0 -j 



Female goats 



352 



Male ditto 



170 



and of hogs there were fuppofed to be feveral hundred. . 



In addition to feveral moft daring burglaries, a highway robbery 

 had been, committed in the courfe of the month. This was a fpecies 

 of depravity hitherto'unknown in that country ; and might, perhaps, 

 be deemed one ftep toward refinement, as being at lead a more manly 

 mode of taking property, than that which the pilfering dark-loving 

 knaves • adopted. The prefent, like the meaner a£ts of villany, 

 had its fource in the fame vice, namely gaming, which was ftili pur- 

 fued with the utmoft avidity and the moft dexterous management ; 

 infomuch that they almoft conftantly defeated the peace-officers. 



Among the few who had died in June was a convict of the name 

 of Gillies. His death took place on the morning of the Speedy's 

 arrival from England ; by- which ftiip a letter was received addreffed 

 to him, admoniftiing him of the uncertainty of life, recommending him 

 early to begin to think of the end of it, and acquainting him with the 

 death of his wife, a child, and two other near relations. He had 

 ceafed to breathe a few moments before this diftrefsful intelligence 

 would otherwife have reached him. 



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