ance of carrying wood for the kilns.
He worked at Hammersmith, for Mr. Scot, of that place. He thinks the bricks
made here as good as those made near London, and says that in the year
1784, they would have sold for a guinea per thousand and to have picked the
kiln at thirty shillings.'

Such is my Sydney detail dated the 12th of November, 1790. Four days after
I went to Rose Hill, and wrote there the subjoined remarks.

November 16th. Got to Rose Hill in the evening. Next morning walked round
the whole of the cleared and cultivated land, with the Rev. Mr. Johnson,
who is the best farmer in the country. Edward Dod, one of the governor's
household, who conducts everything here in the agricultural line,
accompanied us part of the way, and afforded all the information he could.
He estimates the quantity of cleared and cultivated land at 200 acres. Of
these fifty-five are in wheat, barley, and a little oats, thirty in
maize, and the remainder is either just cleared of wood, or is occupied by
buildings, gardens, etc. Four enclosures of twenty acres each, are planned
for the reception of cattle, which may arrive in the colony, and two of
these are already fenced in. In the centre of them is to be erected a
house, for a person who will be fixed upon to take care of the cattle.
All these enclosures are supplied with water; and only a part of the trees
which grew in them being cut down, gives to them a very park-like and
beautiful appearance.

Our survey commenced on the north side of the river. Dod says he expects
this year's crop of wheat and barley from the fifty-five acres to yield
full 400 bushels. Appearances hitherto hardly indicate so much. He says he
finds the beginning of May the best time to sow barley,* but that it may
continue to be sown until August. That sown in May is reaped in December;
that of August in January. He sowed his wheat, part in June and part in
July. He thinks June the best time, and says that he invariably finds that
which is deepest sown, grows strongest and best, even as deep as three
inches he has put it in, and found it to answer. The wheat sown in June
is now turning yellow; that of July is more backward. He has used only the
broad-cast husbandry, and sowed two bushels per acre. The plough has never
yet been tried here; all the ground is hoed, and (as Dod confesses) very
incompetently turned up. Each convict labourer was obliged to hoe sixteen
rods a day, so that in some places the earth was b