NEW SOUTH WALES, 
From the great labour which attended the clearing of 
the ground it proved to be impra(5ticable to fow at prefent 
more than eight or ten acres with wheat and barley : 
and it was apprehended that even this crop would 
folFer from the depredations of ants and field mice. 
In the beginning of May it was fuppofed, as it had 
been once or twice before^ that the rainy feafon was 
fct in ; but in about a week the weather became fine 
again. . ^ 
* BtTides what w?.s Town by the Lieutenant Governor and other Individuals, for 
the fupport of their own ftock : to affift whom, the labour of the convi^ls w?.S- 
pcf afionally lent, . - , . 
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