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offenfive, and by no means warlike or favage, few of them 
having any weapons whatever with them, but merely a 
ftone axe, which they ufe for cutting Heps for themfelves 
to climb up trees by, in purfuit of the little animals which 
they live upon. Thefe natives never brought any of 
their families with them on their vifits to Bathurft; and 
the governor had only«accidentally, in the courfe of one 
of his excurfions from thence, an opportunity of feeing 
one of them. She was blind of the left eye, wanted all 
her teeth, and was altogether one of the moil wretched- 
looking old creatures that could be poflibly imagined, 
compofed of merely fkin and bone. 
“The governor, on his return over the King’s Table 
Land, had much gratification in beholding a cataradl of 
immenfe height, which falls over a precipice little (liort 
of a thoufand feet down into the Prince Regent’s Glen, 
forming one of the mod ftupendous and grand fights that 
perhaps the world can afford. This cataradl having been 
difeevered by four gentlemen of the governor’s party, 
his excellency has been pleafed to give it the name of one 
of them, by calling it the Campbell CataraB." 
The difeovery of a large river in the interior, is a cir- 
cumftance which muff; materially affeiSt the future ad¬ 
vancement of the colony of New South Wales. A means 
of communication like this had long been anxioully 
fearched for, without fuccefs ; and many began to enter¬ 
tain an apprehenfion that the progrefs of colonization in 
New Holland would be confined to its coafts. Our ac¬ 
counts from this interefting country reach up to the be¬ 
ginning of the prefent year, 1818. The colony continued 
to be in a fiourilhing condition ; and confiderable exports 
of fine w’ool have been already made, and will probably 
be much increafed in the courfe of a few feafons. The 
Sydney Gazette of the nth of Odlober, 1817, gives an 
interelting account of further difeoveries made in the in¬ 
terior of New Holland, by the furveyor-general, Mr. Ox¬ 
ley. Another expedition was about to depart, under the 
dire&ion of the fame gentleman, for the purpofe of trac¬ 
ing the courfe of the Macquarrie-river ; which, from its 
fize and appearance, promifes to become of the firft im¬ 
portance to the colony. The increafe in the colony of 
cultivation and live-ftock, from the end of 1813 to the 
end of 1815, has been in acres cultivated 3756, pafture 
46,645, horfes and mules 437, and fiieep 3706. From 1800 
to 1815, or in fifteen years, the increafe of ftock was fur- 
prifing; being from 163 horfes, their higheft number for 
the firft twelve years', to 2318 ; from 1044 horned-cattle, 
to 25,279 ; and from 6124 fheep, to 62,476, without tak¬ 
ing into the account the immenfe quantities of cattle an¬ 
nually killed for the fupply of his majefty’s ftores and the 
general confumption. The climate of the colony being 
found particularly favourable to the filk-worm, means 
are adopting for rearing it to fome extent. 
NEW HOL'LAND, a poft-town of America, in Lan- 
cafter-county, Pennfylvania, in the midft of a fertile 
country; containing a German church and about one 
hundred houfes : fifty-four miles weft-north-weft of Phi¬ 
ladelphia. 
NEW JER'SEY, one of the United States of America, 
fituated between lat. 39. and 41. 24. N. and between the 
meridian of Philadelphia and Ion. 1. E. and bounded eaft 
by Hudfon-river and the fea; fouth by the fea; weft by 
Delaware Bay and river, which divides it from the ftates 
of Delaware and Pennfylvania; north by a line drawn 
from the mouth of Mahakkamak-river, in lat. 41.24. to 
a point on Hudfon-river in lat. 41. This province is 
160 miles long and 52 broad, and contains about 8320 
fquare miles, or 5,324,800 acres. It is faid to have been 
firft difeovered by Capt. Hudfon, who, in 1609, entered 
into the fervice of the Dutch, by whom it was firft fettled, 
about the year 1615. Its original inhabitants were a tribe 
of Indians, who called themfelves Linnellinopes ; which 
the French tranflated into Les Loups, but the Englilh 
called them Delawares. This confederacy comprifed nu¬ 
merous fubordinate clans, who waged war for the greateft 
part of a century with the Iroquois, or five nations, but 
were atlaftfubdued, and reduced to themoft humiliating- 
terms, about the year 1682, when W'iiliam Penn landed 
in Pennfylvania. 
This province formed a part of a large traft of country 
called New Belgium, or New Netherlands ; and, being 
ceded to the Englilh, it was granted, in 1664, by Charles II. 
to his brother James duke of York, who made it over to 
lord Berkeley and fir George Carteret. After feveral di- 
vifions and transfers, which were fources of quarrels and 
confufion, the proprietors, in the year 1702, furrendered 
their charter to the crown, and the country was united to 
the government of New York. In 1706 Jerfey was made 
a feparate government. 
New Jerfey i9 now divided into thirteen counties, which 
are fubdivided into ninety-four precindts, or townlhips; 
and contained, by the laft cenfus, which was made in the 
year 1810, a population of 245,562 inhabitants. The 
names of the counties, and their chief towns, are as 
follow; 
Thefe feven coun¬ 
ties lie from fouth to 
north on Delaware- 
river. Cape May and 
Gloucefter extend a- 
crofts to the fea. 
Counties. 
'Cape May 
Cumberland 
Salem 
Gloucefter 
Burlington 
Hunterdon 
Jiuflex 
Bergen 
Eflex 
Thefe four counties 
lie from north to fouth j 
on the eaftern fide ot') Middlefex 
the ltate. 
Inland counties 
i. Monmouth 
V Somerfet 
(.Morris 
Principal Towns, 
None. 
Bridgetown. 
Salem. 
C Woodbury and 
l Gloucefter. 
C Burlington and 
l Bordentown. 
Trenton. 
Newtown. 
Hackinfack. 
J Newark and Eliza- 
1 beth-town. 
5 Amboy and part of 
i Brunfwick. 
Freehold. 
C Boundbrook and 
l part of Brunfwick. 
Morriftown. 
The militia of this ftate, in 1793, amounted to 19,077, 
between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years ; and 
the whole number ofmen capable of bearing arms amounted 
to between 30 and 40,000. The government of this ftate 
is veiled in a governor, chofen annually by the council 
and aflembly jointly, a legifiative council compofed of one 
member from each county, chofen annually by the people, 
and a general aflembly compofed of three members chofen 
as above. The governor fits in and prefides over the le¬ 
gifiative council; his privy or executive council confifts of 
any three members of the legifiative council; and the go¬ 
vernor and any feven members of the council are a court 
of appeal in the laft refort as to points of law in civil cafes, 
and poflefs a power of pardoning criminals in all cafes 
whatever. The council-may originate any bills, except 
preparing or altering any money-bill, which is the foie 
prerogative of the aflembly. Every bill is read three 
times in each houfe. None of the judges of the fupreme 
court, or other courts, Iherifts, or any perfon poffefiing 
any poll of profit under the governor, jullices of peace 
excepted, is entitled to a feat in the aflembly. The courts 
of juftice in this ftate are jullices’ courts, courts of'quar- 
ter-felfions of the peace, courts of common-pleas, fupreme 
courts, orphans’ courts, courts of chancery, and high 
court of errors and appeals. The Englilh laws, as far as 
they are not repugnant to revolution-principles, are 
adopted by the conllitution ; but in the diftribution of 
property, where there is no will, each fon has two ftiares, 
and each daughter has one fliare. In this ftate there are 
about fifty Prelbyterian congregations, fubjedl to the care 
of three prelbyteries-, viz. thofe of New York, New Brunf¬ 
wick, and Philadelphia. Befides thefe there are upwards 
of forty congregations of Friends, thirty of the Baptifts, 
twenty-five of the Epifcopalians, twenty-eight of Dutch 
Reformers, twenty of the Methodifts, and a iettlement of 
Moravians. All are allowed by the conllitution to wofi- 
fliip God according to the di&ates of their own conflu¬ 
ences ^ 
