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Account of 
subsistence in various roots of the Orchis tribe. In July, 
1828, no less than seventy pigs were kept at the farm. 
Captain Briggs afterwards made a change in the 
system,—no doubt with the best intentions, but not 
attended with the desired effect. Most of the pigs were 
brought over to the settlement, and left to feed on the 
plots of grass where previously the officers’ goats depas¬ 
tured, the numbers of which to each officer was now 
limited. Many of the pigs died for want of food, and 
the settlement was thus deprived of their flesh because 
the Commandant would not allow them to be killed,— 
thinking, perhaps, that they were not heavy enough to 
turn into store. 
Near the farm a beautiful sheet of water, named Farm 
Bay, abounds with water fowl: in part of this bay was 
situated Soldiers’ Island, a spot continually visited by 
the military in their excursions. Further to the east¬ 
ward was another extensive bay, called Kelly’s Basin. 
To the eastward we reach Gordon’s Fiver, at'the 
mouth of which Captain Cuthbertson lost his life : it is 
about a quarter of a mile wide at its entrance, which is 
defended by a bar, upon which there are only eight feet 
of water. It deepens almost immediately to forty feet, 
and remains at that depth to the falls. There are few, 
if any, rivers in the Colony which afford such grand and 
imposing scenery: on its banks were obtained the 
greatest number of the pine logs brought to the settle¬ 
ment. About twenty-five miles from the settlement was 
the lime-burners’ station ; eight miles further on, rounding 
a point, a pretty little island, named by some of the 
officers Butler’s Island, in honour of their Commandant. 
At a distance from lienee of about seven miles the 
Gordon is found to be divided, one stream apparently 
running from the north, the other from the cast; at the 
entrance of the former branch stands an island, which 
from its shape has been named Pyramid Island. 
