WHITENS JOURNAL OF A 
obtaining from them the lime neceffary to the conftrudion 
of a houfe for his own refidence, did not procure even a 
fourth part of the quantity which was wanted. The foun- 
dation ftone of a private houfe for him has been laid ; and a 
plate of copper, with the following infcription engraved on 
it, is to be placed in the wall : 
ARTHUR PHILLIP, Esq. 
Captain General in and over his Majefty's Territory 
of New South Wales, and its Dependencies 5 
Arrived in this Country on the i8th Day of 
January, 1788, with the firft Settlers ^ 
And on the 15th Day of May, in the fame Year, 
the firft of thefe Stones was laid. 
The Supply tender returned from Norfolk Ifland ; where, 
with great difficulty and danger, the ftores fent with Lieu- 
tenant King were landed, on account of the rockynefs of 
its fhore, and the violence of the furf that almoft continually 
beats upon it. In her paflage there fhe fell in with an 
ifland, 
