Civil and Military Government. Officers. Settlers. Total. Mares and Horses 14 43 0 57 Cows and Cow Calves 67 34 0 101 Bulls and Bull Calves 37 37 0 74 Oxen 46 6 0 52 Sheep 191 1310 30 1531 Goats 111 1176 140 1427 Hogs 59 889 921 1869 ---- ---- ---- ---- 525 3495 1091 5111[G] ---- ---- ---- ---- [Footnote G: In addition to the above Stock 61 head of Cattle were discovered in the year 1795, about 50 miles S.W. of the town of Sydney, which must have been produced from three Cows which strayed from the Settlement in 1788. This proves that at least one of the Cows at the time must have been big with a Bull Calf, and also gives the data for calculating the rate of the increase.] Land in cultivation, viz:-- Acres. Government 1700 Civil and Military Officers 1172 Settlers 2547 ---- 5419 The above 1700 acres were unemployed in 1796, on account of the want of public labourers, and the many buildings required--about 4-5th parts of the 1172 acres were sown with wheat--much timber cut, but not burnt off, on the 2547 acres belonging to the settlers.] "Here, as at Sierra Leone, malice may produce an expedition of devastation. The illusions to which the spirit of rapine is so much exposed may give birth to an enterprize of depredation; apprehensions of any such event entertained here would necessarily give birth to preparations of defence. The apprehensions may be well or ill grounded--the measures taken for defence successful or unsuccessful; but the expence in the mean time is incurred. The distance is unexampled, and all danger as well as all expence swells in proportion to the distance: these topics appear to merit consideration. "Another circumstance is, that the labour of the whole number of persons sent to these colonies, whether as Convicts or Settlers, _is entirely lost to the Country_, nor can any return, to compensate such a loss, be expected till that very distant day, when the improved state of the Colony may, by possibility, begin to repay a part of the advance, by the benefits of its trade.