The beautiful diversity of the ground (gentle hill and dale) would certainly be reckoned pretty in any country.

Continued our walk, and crossed the old field, which is intended to form part of the main street of the projected town.

The wheat in this field is rather better, but not much, than in the large field before mentioned.

The next field is maize, inferior to what we have seen, but not despicable.

An acre of maize, at the bottom of the marine garden, is equal in luxuriancy of promise to any I ever saw in any country.
[*The best crop of barley ever produced in New South Wales, was sown by a private individual, in February 1790, and reaped in the following October.] [**As all the trees on our cleared ground were cut down, and not grubbed up, the roots and stumps remain, on which account a tenth part of surface in every acre must be deducted.