The easterly winds, by setting in from the sea, bring thick weather and rain, except in summer, when they become regular sea-breezes.

The 'aurora australis' is sometimes seen, but is not distinguished by superior brilliancy.
To sum up: notwithstanding the inconveniences which I have enumerated, I will venture to assert in few words, that no climate hitherto known is more generally salubrious*, or affords more days on which those pleasures which depend on the state of the atmosphere can be enjoyed, than that of New South Wales.

The winter season is particularly delightful.
[*To this cause, I ascribe the great number of births which happened, considering the age and other circumstances, of many of the mothers.

Women who certainly would never have bred in any other climate here produced as fine children as ever were born.] The leading animal production is well known to be the kangaroo.

The natural history of this animal will, probably, be written from observations made upon it in England, as several living ones of both sexes, have been brought home.