It were vain to suppose, that it can prove either agreeable or interesting to a majority of readers but as this work is intended not only for amusement, but information, I considered it right to present this detail unaltered, either in its style or arrangement.
A return of the number of persons employed at Rose Hill, November 16th, 1790.
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- How Employed | Troops | Civil dept | Troops | Convicts | | | |Wives | Children| Men | Women | Children| -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Storekeeper 1 Surgeon 1 Carpenters 24 Blacksmiths 5 Master Bricklayer 1 Bricklayers 28 Master Brickmaker 1 Brickmakers 52 Labourers 326* Assistants to the provision store 4 Assistants to the hospital 3 Officers' servants 6 Making Clothing 50 Superintendants 4 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total number of persons 552| 29 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 450 | 50 | 13 | -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*Of these labourers, 16 are sawyers.

The rest are variously employed in clearing fresh land; in dragging brick and timber carts; and a great number in making a road of a mile long, through the main street, to the governor's house.].