456 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONT [January, 



CHAP. XXII. 



agricultural concerns. — the criminal court assembled. a man 



tried fox killing a native. two men executed. — the public 



gaol burnt. — observations. — great drought. a flood at the 



river. — natives. — a spanish prize arrives. norfolk island. 



resources in new south wales, the buffalo arrives from eng- 

 land, and brings cattle from the cape. — natives. — tempestuous 



weather. effects. — the albion whaler arrives from england. 



—her quick passage. a missionary murdered.— the murderers 



tried and executed.' — the hilsborough arrives from england. 



—mortality on board. the governor visits the settlers upon 



george's river. — the Norfolk sloop returns from an excursion 



to the northward. account of her proceedings. enters shoal 



bay. particulars respecting it. — enters olass-house bay. — 



lieutenant flinders meets some natives, — particulars. — point 

 skirmish. — proceeds to a river in. glass-house bay. 



muft now return to the other affairs of the fettlement, from 

 which we have been fo long abfent. 

 Agricultural concerns wore as unpromifing an appearance as in the 

 laft month. The Governor, in a vifit which he made to Parramatta^ 

 found that the pafture over the whole country had been entirely- 

 burnt up ; in confequence of which the grazing cattle were in great 

 diftrefs ; and, from the lamentable continuance of the drought, the 

 maize was every where likely to fail : a, misfortune that would ruin 

 the flock of hogs, and confiderably reduce the fettlement in the ar- 

 ticle of bread. 



That he might afcertain what quantity of grain he had to depend 

 on, all thofe who cultivated ground were directed to give in, bv a 

 certain time, a return of the wheat and other grain in the^- poffefhon. 

 About this time his Excellency received from Norfolk Ifland the fatif- 

 fadlory intelligence, that the wheat harveft had there been more pro r 



5 ductive 



