LIVE STOCK.
Horned Cattle. | Sheep. Goats.
Horfes. Marès. Bulls Sc
Oxen.
Cows. Hogs. Male. Female. Mate. Female.
. 26 5s . ■95 4247 743' • 1:7*4 ?8 r . . :*495
LAND IN CULTIVATION.
Acres in Wheat. Acres, for Maize. Acres, in Barley.
jssii 15.27 2$ l
Tij addition to thefe, a confiderable quantity of' garden-grottrUll
was in potatoes, callevances, and vines..
CITAT.’
C I I A P . VIII.
A T T EM P T OP SOME IR ISH CONVICTS TO D E S E R T IN SEA R CH OF A NEW
S E T T L EM E N T .— SOME PUNISHED.— STEP S T A K E N TO PR EV EN T FU TU
R E D E SER T IO N .— A S E T T L E R ’ S BOAT STOLEN-.— P A R T IC U L A R S .— THE
FR A N C IS R E T U RN S FROM TH E SOUTHWARD.— CO NJECTU R E S AS TO A
S T R A IT .— N A T IV E S .— A CONVICT P RO V ID EN T IA L L Y SA V ED .— PU BLIC
Wo r k s .— w e a t h e r .
January 179 8.] 4 H E Irifl) prifoners who llad arrived in the laft
Jhips from that country had about this period become fo turbulent
and refraditory, and fo diffatisfied with their fituation, that, without
the moft rigid and fevere treatment, it was impoflible to derive from
them any labour whatever. In addition to their natural vicious pro-
penfities, .they conceived an opinion that there was a colony o f white
people, which had been difcovered in this country, fituated to the
S. W. of the fettlement, from which it was diftant between three and
four hundred miles, and in which they were allured o f finding all
the comforts of life, without the neceffity o f labouring for them.
It, was difcovered, that, in confequence of this extraordinary rumour,
a plan had been formed, by means o f a correfpondence carried
on between thefe people, from one diftridt to another, of
efcaping from the colony ; which was to be put in execution fo foon
as they had completed a fufficient flock o f provifions. The place
o f general rendezvous was fixed upon, and they were furnilhed
with a paper o f written inftruclions for their guidance to this fancied
paradife, or to China; in addition to which, they had been
fupplied with the figure o f a compafs drawn upon paper.
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