Major Foveaux, the lieutenant-governor, had found, what had been so much wanted and hitherto unknown, a good landing-place for boats and small craft, in Anson's Bay, where there were four and five fathoms of water within a few yards of the shore, which was a fine sandy beach, and the passage free from rocks or shoals. The following was the state of the live stock, and ground in cultivation, in New South Wales: LIVE STOCK BELONGING TO INDIVIDUALS In June 1801 Sheep Cattle Horses Goats Hogs 6269 362 211 1259 4766 BELONGING TO GOVERNMENT In August 1801 Sheep Cattle Horses 488 931 32 GROUND IN CULTIVATION Acres of Wheat Acres for Maize Government 467 300 Individuals 4857¼ 3564 Total 5333¼ 3864 A stack, containing 1000 bushels of grain, the property of an individual, had been unfortunately destroyed by fire. The Hawkesbury had again inundated the adjacent country; and many of the settlers, who had farms on its banks, had in despair totally abandoned them. With this information I must here conclude my labours; and, as the annalist of the English Colony in New South Wales, probably take my leave for ever of that country, in whose service I spent the first nine years of its infancy, during all the difficulties and hardships with which, in that rude state, it had to contend: a country which has eventually proved the destruction of my brightest prospects; having, by my services there, been precluded from succeeding to my proper situation in the professional line to which I was bred; without any other reward as yet to boast of, than the consciousness of having ever been a faithful and zealous servant to my employers, and knowing that the peculiar hardship of my case has been acknowledged by every gentleman, in and out of office, to whom it has been communicated. THE END End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2, by David Collins