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1788, obtaining from them the Kmc neceffary to the confiru&ion
March/ ^ o£ a jjoufe for his own refidence, did not procure even a
fourth part of the quantity which was wanted, - The foundation
ftone of a private houfe for him has been laid j and a
plate of copper,-with the following infcription engraved on
it, is to be placed in the wall:.
A R T H U R P H I L L I P , E sq .
Captain General in and over his Majefty’s Territory
o f New South Wales, and its Dependencies 5,
Arrived in this Country on the 18th Day of
January, 1788, with the firft Settlers f f
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 ffiofe, and the violence o f the furf that almoft continually
beats upon it. In her paffage there flie; fell in with an
ifland,.
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ifland, in lat, 3 r° 3#iS§ long, 1 59° 4' E. never before dif- 1788.
covered, to which Lieutenant Ball, who commanded the , Mafch-
Supply on this occafion, gave the name of Lord Howe’s
ifland. On her return to this pert flie flopped at it, and
found the landing nearly, if not quite, as difficult as at
Norfolk Ifland. The fliore in many places was covered;
With excellent turtle, eighteen of which were brought here,,
and proved a feafonable fupply to the convi&s afflicted with;
:the leurvy, -many of whom were in a deplorable fituation.
; The fmalleft turtle brought from Lord Howe’s Ifland did
not weigh lefs than 1501b. They alfo found on it, in great
.plenty, a kind o f fowl, refembling much' the Guinea fowl
in fhape and lize, but widely different in colour; they
being in general all white, with a red flefhy fubftance
riflng, ;like a cock’s comb, from the head, and not unlike
a.piece o f fealing-wax. Thefe not. being birds of flight,,
nor in the leaft wild, the Jailors availing themfelves o f theirs
gentlenefs and inability to take wing from their purfuits,
'eafily flruck them down with flicks, There were alfo many-,
thirds of the dove kind, as tame as the former, and. caught
with equal faeflityi Some ofothem were brought alive to>
this place. Befides thefe, the fhore abounded- with fern'
birds:;