A ship from hence is ready to
sail with an increase of force, besides many convicts for the purpose of
sawing up timber, and turning the flax-plant to advantage.
So much for Norfolk. In Port Jackson all is quiet and stupid as could be
wished. We generally hear the lie of the day as soon as the beating
of the Reveille announces the return of it; find it contradicted by
breakfast time; and pursue a second through all its varieties, until
night, welcome as to a lover, gives us to sleep and dream ourselves
transported to happier climes.
Let me not, however, neglect telling you the little news which presents
itself. All descriptions of men enjoy the highest state of health; and
the convicts continue to behave extremely well. A gang of one hundred of
them, guarded by a captain, two subalterns and 20 marines, is about to
be sent up to the head of the harbour, at the distance of 3 leagues, in
a westerly direction, from Sydney Cove, for the purpose of establishing
a settlement there. The convicts are to be employed in putting the land
around into cultivation, as it appears to be of a more promising nature
than that near the encampment.
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