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 was not any church built, lifted up his eyes with atonihment, and declared, that had the place been ettled by his nation, a houe for God would have been erected before any houe for man.

The invalids and paengers who were returning to England in the Britannia being embarked, that hip, the Reliance, and the Francis chooner, hauled out of the Cove preparatory to their departure. As a proof that tock was not at this time falling in its value, one of the gentlemen old two Cape cows and one teer for 189 pounds terling. The tock in the colony was of coniderable extent and value, as will appear by the following account of it which was taken for the purpoe of being tranmitted to Government:

Account of live tock in the poeion of Government and the civil and military officers of the ettlement, on the firt of September, 1796.

Mares 57; cows and cow calves 101; bulls and bull calves 74; oxen 54; heep 1531; goats 1427; hogs 1869.

The wild cattle to the wetward of the river Nepean, were not included in this account.

All kinds of poultry were numerous.

The number of acres at the ame time in cultivation, were 5419.

It was atisfactory to thoe gentlemen who were now on the point of quitting that country (among whom was the Author of this hitory, who had been in the ettlement from its etablihment, and witneed many periods of ditres and difficulty) to reflect, that they left it not only with a prospect of plenty before it, but with tores and granaries abundantly filled at the time. In the houes of individuals were to be found mot of the comforts, and not a few of the luxuries of life. For thee the iland was indebted to the communications that it had had with India, and other parts of the world; and the former years of famine, toll, and difficulty, were now exchanged for years of plenty, eae, and pleaure.

The following tate of the ettlement was made up to the 31t of Augut 1796: