He Offered To Show
The Written Document, Saying That It Was Exactly The Same As Ruse's.
I Therefore Declined To Trouble Him, And Took My Leave With Wishes
For His Success And Prosperity.
Near Mr. Scheffer's farm is a small patch of land cleared by Lieutenant Townson
of the New South Wales corps, about two acres of which are in maize and wheat,
both looking very bad.
Proceeded to the farm of Mr. Arndell, one of the assistant surgeons.
This gentleman has six acres in cultivation as follows: rather more than four
in maize, one in wheat, and the remainder in oats and barley. The wheat
looks tolerably good, rather thin but of a good height, and the ears
well filled. His farming servant guesses the produce will be twelve bushels,*
and I do not think he over-rates it. The maize he guesses at thirty bushels,
which from appearances it may yield, but not more. The oats and barley
are not contemptible. This ground has been turned up but once The aspect
of it is nearly south, on a declivity of the river, or arm of the sea,
on which Rose Hill stands. It was cleared of wood about nine months ago,
and sown this year for the first time.
[*I have received a letter from Port Jackson, dated in April 1792,
which states that the crop of wheat turned out fifteen bushels,
and the maize rather more than forty bushels.]
December 8th. Went this morning to the farm of Christopher Magee,
a convict settler, nearly opposite to that of Mr. Scheffen.
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