Their cultivation is yet in its infancy, and therefore opinions should not be hastily formed of what it may arrive at, with moderate skill and industry.

They have at present little in the ground besides maize, and that looks not very promising.

Some small patches of wheat which I saw are miserable indeed.
The greatest part of the land I think but indifferent, being light and stoney.

Of the thirteen farms ten are unprovided with water; and at some of them they are obliged to fetch this necessary article from the distance of a mile and a half.

All the settlers complain sadly of being frequently robbed by the runaway convicts, who plunder them incessantly.
December 6th.