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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

CHAPTER XVI
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The great road from near the landing place to the governor's house is finished, and a very noble one it is, being of great breadth, and a mile long, in a strait line.

In many places it is carried over gullies of considerable depth, which have been filled up with trunks of trees covered with earth.

All the sawyers, carpenters and blacksmiths will soon be concentred under the direction of a very adequate person of the governor's household.

This plan is already so far advanced as to contain nine covered sawpits, which change of weather cannot disturb the operations of, an excellent workshed for the carpenters and a large new shop for the blacksmiths.

It certainly promises to be of great public benefit.


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