28c ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [December, 



TO CIVIL, MILITARY, AND 



FREE SETTLERS. TO MALE CONVICTS. 



Eight pounds of flour, Four pounds of flour, 



Seven pounds of beef, Seven pounds of beef, 



(Or feven pounds of pork,) (Or feven pounds of pork t ) 



Five pints of peafe, Three pints of peafe, 



Six ounces fugar. Six ounces fugar, 



Three pints of rice. 



A jail gang was alfo ordered to be eftablifhed at Toongabbe, for the 

 employment and punifhment of all bad and fufpicious chara&ers. 



Wheat was directed to be purchafed from the fettlers at ten {hillings 

 per bufhel, much of that grain being found to have been blighted. 

 The ground about Toongabbe was pronounced to be worn out, the 

 produce of the laft harveft not averaging more than fix or feven 

 bufhels an acre, though at firft it was computed at feventeen. The 

 northern farms had alfo failed through a blight. 



The lofs by death in the year 1794 was, two fettlers ; four foldiers 1 

 one foldier's wife ; thirty- two male convi6ts ; ten female convicts* and 

 ten children \ making a total of fifty- nine perfons* 



