In the Diftri£t o f Parramatta;
12 5 9 and a half acres in wheat.
663 and a half acres for maize.
In the Sydney Diftri&s.
538 and a half acres in wheat.
365 and a half acres for maize.
Making a total o f 4392 acres and a half in wheat, and 1436 acres
for maize, in the three principal diftridts o f the fettlements.
At the Hawkefbury, the greateft quantity o f ground in cultivation
by any individual, "who had from a convict become a fettler,
was fifty-one acres, forty-fix o f which were in wheat. Two others
had fifty each, forty o f which were in wheat. A man o f the
name of Flood (who had been left by Mr. Hogan, when here in the
fhip Marquis Cornwallis in 1796, in the care o f fome ground which
that gentleman had purchafed) had at this time two hundred, and
an agent of Mr. Palmer the commiffary, had within feven o f three
hundred, acres in wheat. There were but few fheep in the pof-
feffion of-the fettlers o f this diftridt, and about two hundred and
forty goats. Hogs were more numerous, there being, after all the
flaughter which had lately taken place among thefe animals, nearly
two thoufand remaining. The fertility Of this fpot had invited
about one hundred and eighty perfons to become holders of land
thereon ; and when they {hall have eredted their dwelling-houfes
and barns on ground inacceffible to the overflowings of the river
(which, from its vicinity to the immenfe body o f mountains to the
weft ward, and its own irregularly winding form, muft often occur),
they will not find their time or exertions to have been mifapplied.
The fettlers in and about Parramatta had not fo much ground in
cultivation, and were fewer in number than thofe o f the Hawkef-
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bury diftridt. A widow woman o f the name o f Daveny, whofe
hufband had been a fuperintendant of convidts, had fifty acres in
wheat, and twenty-three in maize. Among the individuals who
had attended to the rearing of ftock muft be mentioned with the
credit which he merits, Edward Elliot, who, having firmly with-
ftood every temptation that was' placed in his way to induce him
to fell them, had at this time a ftock confiding o f 1 1 6 * fheep, derived
from one ewe, which had been allowed him by Governor
Philip in December 1792. It, perhaps, may be read with fome fa-
tisfadtion, that George Barrington appeared to have twenty acres
o f ground in wheat, and to be the pofleflor of thirteen fheep, fifty
five goats, and two mares. His condudt continued fuch as it
had been from the firft; but his health was vifibly declining, his
unremitted attention to the duties of his office proving too much
for an afthmatic habit, which he brought with him from England.
There were nine hundred and three goats, three hundred and
thirty-two fheep, and about four hundred hogs, in this diftridt, the
fettlers o f which were one hundred and four in number.
It has.been fhewn, that the cultivated ground in the diftridt o f the
principal fettlement was far lefs than in either that o f the river, or Paramatta.
A t each o f thefe, the foil was greatly fuperior, and had therefore
been more defired by fettlers; it muft moreover be obferved, that
moft o f the farms in the neighbourhood of Sydney were taken before
much knowledge had been obtained o f the fuperior richnefs
o f the foil in the interior, over that near the coaft. The greateft
quantity of ground in cultivation by any individual was thirty-
three acres. Their ftock of fheep amounted only to thirty-eight,
of goats to two hundred and ninety-two ; and there were remaining
among them about three hundred and fixty hogs. The number
o f fettlers was feventy-one. In this ftatement, the farms and
ftock of the officers of the civil and military department, and o f
fome of the free fettlers, were not included.
* Vide Vol. I. jd 482..
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