VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
had with us. His excellency feeing the ftate thefe poor ob- 
jed:s were in, ordered a piece of ground to be inclofed, 
for the purpofe of railing vegetables for them. The feeds 
that were fown upon this occafion, on firft appearing above 
ground, looked promifing and well, but foon after 
withered away ; which was not indeed extraordinary, as 
they were not fown at a proper feafon of the year. The 
fick have increafed fince our landing to fuch a degree, that 
a fpot for a general hofpital has been marked out, and arti- 
ficers already employed on it. A proper fpot, contiguous 
to the hofpital, has been chofen, to raife fuch vegetables as 
can be produced at this feafon of the year ; and where a 
permanent garden for the ufe of the hofpital is to be 
eftabliaied. 
February ift. We had the moft tremendous thunder 
and lightning, with heavy rain, I ever remember to have 
feen. 
2d. This morning five flieep, belonging to the lieutenant- 
governor and quarter-mafter, were killed by the lightning^ 
under a tree, at the foot of which a fhed had been built for 
them. The branches and trunk of the tree were fhivered 
and rent in a very extraordinary manner. 
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