This is slovenly husbandry; but in a country where immediate subsistence is wanted, it is perhaps necessary.
None of these stumps, when I left Port Jackson, showed any symptoms of decay, though some of the trees had been cut down four years.

To the different qualities of the wood of Norfolk Island and New South Wales, perhaps the difference of soil may in some measure be traced.

That of Norfolk Island is light and porous: it rots and turns into mould in two years.

Besides its hardness that of Port Jackson abounds with red corrosive gum, which contributes its share of mischief.] The main street of the new town is already begun.

It is to be a mile long, and of such breadth as will make Pall Mall and Portland Place "hide their diminished heads." It contains at present thirty-two houses completed, of twenty-four feet by twelve each, on a ground floor only, built of wattles plastered with clay, and thatched.