90 905 760 1,420 3,675
At Mulgrave Place - 2,040 2,475 6,820 11,335
At Liberty Plains - 530 100 830 1,480
At Concord - 710 325 140 1,175
At York Place - - 50 330 360
At Bu-la-nam-ing - 565 30 1,516 2,111
At Petersham Hill - 2,140 410 2,015 4,565
At Hunter's Hill - 850 - 74 924
In Port Jackson Harbour - 390 140 195 725
At Banks Town - - - 3,247 3,247
At Dundas District - - - 700 700
At Norfolk Island 49 205 - 3,267 3,521
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Total granted by each 3,389 10,674 4,965 28,650 47,678
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DISTRICTS WHERE LEASED
In the township of Sydney 30 27 2 431/4 1021/4
In the township of Parramatta - - - 47 47
In the township of Toongabbie - - - 30 30
At Mulgrave Place - - - 12 12
At Norfolk Island - - - 265 265
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Total leased by each 30 27 2 3971/4 4561/4
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It may not be altogether uninteresting to those who may wish for
information respecting the concerns of this settlement, to find a
register of the shipping which has visited New South Wales from various
parts of the globe; whereby it will be seen, that, in however
insignificant or contemptible a point of view the colony may in general
have been held, individuals have found in it either a port of refreshment
after the fatigues of a long voyage, or an advantageous market for their
speculations. The arrivals will be confined to the harbour of Port
Jackson; only mentioning in this place that of the two ships _Le
Boussole_ and _L'Astrolabe_, at Botany Bay, in January 1788,
under the command of the ever-to-be-regretted and unfortunate M. de la
Perouse, who followed in the path of our immortal circumnavigator,
Captain Cook (with whose name every writer must be proud to adorn his
page), and who, like him, has left his country, indeed the whole world,
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