NEW SOUTH WALES. : 
that the natives pull up the plant when it is in flower chap. 
XIII. 
to make their fifliing lines. v-^-j 
On the whole, notwithflanding the difficulties and 
difadvantages at firft experienced, which, though great, 
were not more than muft naturally be expedted to occur 
in fuch an undertaking; notwithflanding the licknefles 
which from various caufes prevailed for fome time among 
the people, the fettlement at Sydney Cove wore a very 
promifing afpedt at the time when the laft accounts were 
fent ; and there can be no doubt that it will be found 
hereafter fully to anfwer every expe6tation which was 
formed when the defign was projected. The fcantinefs 
of the ftreams of frefh water w as thought at firft un- 
favourable, but good fprings have fince been found by 
digging. The houfe built for Governor Phillip Hands 
about fifty-iix feet above high-water mark, and there, 
by linking a well about fifteen feet in the rock, an ex- 
cellent fpring of pure water has been obtained. ■ 
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