VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES, 
a merciful Redeemer that, though fo great finners, they 
might be received into that blifs, which the good and vir- 
tuous only can either deferve or expedl. They were now 
turned off ; and in the agonizing moments of the feparation 
of the foul from the body feemed to embrace each other. 
The execution of thefe unhappy youths, the eldeft of whom 
was not twenty-four years of age, which feemed to make a 
greater imprelBon on the convidls than any circumftance 
had done fince their landing, will induce them, it is to 
be hoped, to change their conduct, and to adopt a better 
mode of life than, I am forry to fay, they have hitherto 
purfued. 
The principal bufinefs now going forward, is the eroding 
huts for the marines and convids, with the cabbage -tree. 
We have been here nearly {ix months, and four officers only 
as yet got huts : when the reft will be provided with them 
feems uncertain ; but this I well know, that living in tents, 
as the rainy feafon has commenced, is truly uncomfortable, 
and likely to give a fevere trial to the ftrongeft and moft 
robuft conftitution. 
The trees of this country are immenfely large, and clear 
of branches to an amazing height. While ftanding, many 
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