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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

CHAPTER XVI
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This gentleman has six acres in cultivation as follows: rather more than four in maize, one in wheat, and the remainder in oats and barley.

The wheat looks tolerably good, rather thin but of a good height, and the ears well filled.
His farming servant guesses the produce will be twelve bushels,* and I do not think he over-rates it.

The maize he guesses at thirty bushels, which from appearances it may yield, but not more.

The oats and barley are not contemptible.

This ground has been turned up but once The aspect of it is nearly south, on a declivity of the river, or arm of the sea, on which Rose Hill stands.


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