AVOYAGETO 
CHAP. Governor Phillip that when houfes are to be built here, 
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' the grants of land fhall be made with fuch claufes as will 
prevent the building of more than one houfe on one 
allotment, which is to confift of fixty feet in fronts and 
one hundred and fifty feet in depth. Thefe regulations 
will preferve a kind of uniformity m the buildings, i}re- 
vent narrow^ ftreets, and exclude many inconveniences 
which a rapid increafe of inhabitants might otherwife 
occafion hereafter. It has been alfo an objea: of the 
Governor's attention to place the public buildings in fitua- 
tions that will be eligible at all times, and particularly 
to give the itorehoufes and hofpital fuificient fpace for 
future enlargement, fliould it be found neceffary. 
The firft huts that were ereded here were compofed of 
very perilhable materials, the foft wood of the cabbage 
palm, being only deligned to afford imm.ediate flielter. 
The neceflity of ufing the wood quite green made it alfo 
the lefs likely to prove durable. The huts of the con- 
vi6t^ were ftill more flight, being compofed only of up- 
right polls, wattled with flight twigs, and plaiflered up 
v/ith cl.iy. Barracks and huts were afterwards formed 
of materials rather more lafting. Buildings of ftone 
might eafily have been raife^d, had there been any means 
of procuring lime for mortar. The ftone v/hich has 
been found is of three forts: A fine free ftone, reckoned 
equal in o-oodnefs to that of Portland ; an indifferent kind 
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