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Here was feen the fineft ftream of water that had c H a p. 
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hitherto been difcovered in the country, but the cove , 
into which it runs Hes very open to the fea. When the 
natives faw that the EngUfli were going forward towards 
the next cove, one of them, an old man, made figns 
that he might be allowed to go firft. He did fo, and as 
foon as he had afcended the hill, called out, holding up 
both his hands, (the ufual fignal of amity among thefe peo- 
ple) to fignify to the natives in the next cove that they 
who were advancing were friends. The Governor's 
party did not, however, defcend to that cove, but faw about 
forty men, fo that, unlefs they had affembled themfelves on 
fome particular occalion, they muft be more numerous - ^ 
in that part than had been before imagined. Governor 
Phillip had calculated before, from the parties he had 
feen, that in Botany Bay, Port Jackfon, Broken Bay, and 
all the intermediate country, the inhabitants could not ex- 
ceed one thoufand five hundred. In croffing the hills at 
this time between Botany Bay and Port Jackfon, fmoke 
was feen on the top of Lanfdown Hills, which feems to 
prove beyond a doubt, that the country is inhabited as ' 
far as thofe mountains, which are not lefs than fifty 
miles from the fea. 
Further enquiries having given fome reafon to fup- 
pofe, that one of the natives had been murdered, and 
feveral wounded, previoufly to the attack made upon 
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