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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

CHAPTER X
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These have been occasionally augmented and reduced, as circumstances have been thought to render it necessary.
Brick-kilns are now erected here, and bricks manufactured by a convict of the name of Becket, who came out in the last fleet, and has fifty-two people to work under him.

He makes 25,000 bricks weekly.

He says that they are very good, and would sell at Birmingham, where he worked about eighteen months ago, at more than 30 shillings per thousand.
Nothing farther of public nature remaining to examine, I next visited a humble adventurer, who is trying his fortune here.

James Ruse, convict, was cast for seven years at Bodmin assizes, in August 1782.

He lay five years in prison and on board the 'Dunkirk' hulk at Plymouth, and then was sent to this country.


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