434 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [January, 



In order to mark the annual increafe*, it may be proper to infert in 

 this place an account of the live-ftock, and land in cultivation, at the 

 clofe of the year 1797, belonging to Government, to the civil and 

 military officers, to fettlers, and others. 



Live Stock. 



Horfes, --. 



26 



Mares, - 



- 5 3 



Bulls and Oxen, - 



- i3 2 



Cows, - 



l 9S 



Hogs, 



4247 



Sheep, - - - 



- 2 457 



Goats, male, 



781 



Ditto, female, 



- 1495 



Land in Cultivation, 

 Acres in Wheat, - - 3361 J 

 Acres for Maize, - - 1 S 2 7 

 Acres in Barley, - - 26| 

 In addition to th-efe, a considerable quantity of garden-ground was.-, 

 in potatoes, callevances, and vines. 



January 1798.— The Irifh prifoners who had arrived in the laft (hips 

 from that country had about this period become fo turbulent and refrac- 

 tory, and fo diflatisfied with their fituation, that, without the mod: rigid 

 and fevere treatment, it was impoffible to derive from them any labour 

 whatever. In addition to their natural vicious propensities, they con- 

 ceived an opinion that there was a colony of white people, which had 

 been difcovered, fituated to the S. W. of Sydney, from which it was 

 diftant between three and four hundred miles ; and where they 

 were aflured of finding all the comforts of life, without the neceffity 

 of labouring for them. In conlequence of this extraordinary rumour, 

 * See the account of the year 1796 in p. 331 ; where, for Mares 57, read Mares and Horfes, 57. 



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