Perhaps no birth-day was ever celebrated in more places, or more remote from each other, than that of his Majesty on this day.
It was now, it seems, first generally known, that the name of Cumberland County had been given by the Governor to this part of the territory.

This name had been fixed before the assembling of the first courts, for the sake of preserving regularity in the form of the public acts, in which it is usual to name the county.

The boundaries fixed for Cumberland County were, on the west, Carmarthen and Lansdown Hills: on the north, the northern parts of Broken Bay; and to the southward, the southern parts of Botany Bay.

Thus including completely these three principal bays, and leaving the chief place of settlement at Sydney Cove nearly in the centre.
On the 22d of June was a slight shock of an earthquake, which did not last more than two or three seconds.

It was felt by most people in the camp, and by the Governor himself, who heard at the same time a noise from the southward, which he took at first for the report of guns fired at a great distance.
24 June 1788 On the 24th, a convict who had absconded on the 5th, having been guilty of a robbery, returned into the camp almost starved.