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ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [February, 



With the ripening of the maize fields, the depredations of the na- 

 tives returned. On the 19th, the Governor received a difpatch from 

 Parramatta, containing an account, that a man had been murdered by 

 them near Toongabbe, and three others feverely wounded : a few 

 days after, two others were killed in the fame manner. Thefe circum- 

 fiances rendered it abfolutely necefTary to fend out numerous well- 

 armed parties, and attack them wherever they mould be met with ; 

 for lenity or forbearance had only been followed by repeated acts of 

 cruelty. 



a We s t k his vi e w or Toon g a b « e 



Publis7icdJIla.r ?.5'h.-aS,by <h*M/ & Daiics. Strand. 



rufous. The legs and claws are large in proportion to the bird, particularly the claws. The 

 outward toe is connected with the middle one as far as the firft joint. The tail is long, and 

 compofed of three different forts of feathers, of which the upper fide is of a dark grey, with 



ferruginous 



