NEW SOUTH WALES. - 
and a rock to the fouth-eaft of it, may be difcemed even chap, 
at eighteen leagues. In latitude 29° 25' fouth, longi- 
tude 159° S9 eaft, a very dangerous reef has fince been 
feen. The fliip from which it v/as obferved was then 
four leagues to the fouthward, and it could not at that 
time be afcertained how far it extends to the northward. 
To expedite the cultivation of Norfolk liland a freih 
detachment was fent thither in October, confiifing of an 
officer and eight marines, with thirty convi6tSj confifl:- 
ing of ten women and twenty men : Thus, there exifted 
on this iflet, when the lail accounts were tranfmitted, forty- 
four- men and fixteen women, who, having eighteen 
months provifions, lived comfortably on this fequeftered 
fpot, under the prudent management of a youthful ruler, 
of whole bufy life the reader may wifli to know all the 
particulars, which at prefent can be authentically told. 
Philip Gidley King, who had the honour to condudt. 
the original fettlers to Norfolk Ifland, was born at Laun- 
cefton in Cornwall, on the 23d of April, 1758. He is 
the fon of Philip King, of that town, draper, who> ■ 
married the daughter of John Gidley, of Exeter, attor- 
ney at law. Much as he ov/es to his parents, he^ 
is indebted for his fcholaftic learning to Mr. Bailey . ~, 
at Yarmouth. He derives, probably, fome advantages 
from making an early choice of his profellion, A^-t 
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