x8co.] OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 533 



Land in Cultivation. 



Acres of wheat - - 4665! 



Acres of maize - - 2 93° 



Acres of barley - - 82 

 And a confiderable quantity of garden-ground, in potatoes, &c» 

 and vines. 



The poverty of the fettlers, and the high price of labour, occafioned 

 much land to have been unemployed in that year. Many of the in- 

 ferior farmers were nearly ruined by the high price that they were 

 obliged to give for fuch necelTaries as they required from thofe who 

 had been long in the habit of monopolizing every article brought to 

 the fettlement for fale ; a habit, of which it was found impoffible to 

 get the better, without the pofitive and immediate interference of the 

 government at home. 



Many representations had been made on this diftreffing fubject ; and 

 they feemed in fome degree to have been attended to, as in feveral 

 of the laft arrivals from England, certain articles, confirming of imple- 

 ments of hufoandry, clothing, and (lores, had been configned to the 

 Governor, to be retailed for the ufe of the colonifts ; and it was un- 

 derftood that this fyftem, fo beneficial to the fettlement, was to be pur- 

 fued in future. 



The Buffalo failed for England on the 21ft of Odober, and 

 touched at Norfolk Ifland. This fettlement wore a moft unpro- 

 mifing appearance. All the buildings were in a ftate of rapid decay, 

 and but few fymptoms of induftry were vifible. Of ftock, only a 

 few hogs and a fmall quantity of vegetables were to be procured. 

 A few fields of wheat, which were ready for reaping, looked tolerably 

 well ; but on the whole, Norfolk Ifland by no means promifed to 

 repay the expence that it annually coft the government. 



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