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foot tolerably free from obftacles, or more eafily cleared ^ -'^ 
than the reft, with the biiftle of various hands biifily ^-—^-^ 
employed in a number of the moil incongruous works^ 
increafes rather than diminiihes the diforder? and pro- 
duces a confufion of eire6t, which for a time appears in- 
extricable, and feems to threaten an endlefs continuance 
of perplexity. But by degrees large fpaces are opened, 
plans are formed, lines marked, and a profpedt at leaft 
of future regularity is clearly difcerned, and is made 
the more flriking by the recolledlion of the former 
confufion. 
To this latter ftate the fettlement at Sydney Cove had 
now at length arrived, and is fo reprefented in the plan 
annexed. Lines are there traced out which diftinguifli 
the principal ftreet of an intended town, to be terminated 
by the Governor's houfe, the main guard, and the cri- 
minal court. In fome parts of this fpace temporary bar- 
racks at prefent ftand, but no permanent buildings will 
be fuifered to be placed, except in conformity to the 
plan laid down. Should the town be flill further ex- 
tended in future, the form of other fireets is alfo traced 
in fuch a manner as to enfure a free circulation of air. 
The principal itreets, according to this defign, will 
be two hundred feet wide ; the ground propofed for 
them to the fouthward is nearly level, and is altogether 
an excellent fituation for buildings. It is propofed by 
- R 2 Governor 
