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 * 14 cwt. of meal
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 * align="right" | 0
 * 1 ton of flour
 * align="right" | 30
 * align="right" | 0
 * Rum
 * align="right" | 10
 * align="right" | 0
 * Wine
 * align="right" | 6
 * align="right" | 0
 * Rice
 * align="right" | 6
 * align="right" | 0
 * Sugar
 * align="right" | 5
 * align="right" | 0
 * Coffee
 * align="right" | 4
 * align="right" | 0
 * Tea
 * align="right" | 1
 * align="right" | 10
 * Oil
 * align="right" | 3
 * align="right" | 0
 * Soap
 * align="right" | 2
 * align="right" | 0
 * Wages and clothes for servants
 * align="right" | 36
 * align="right" | 0
 * Clothes for myself
 * align="right" | 20
 * align="right" | 0
 * }
 * Soap
 * align="right" | 2
 * align="right" | 0
 * Wages and clothes for servants
 * align="right" | 36
 * align="right" | 0
 * Clothes for myself
 * align="right" | 20
 * align="right" | 0
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After adding wages and the value of garden vegetables, you may see the present expenses of a colonist here.

8th.—Dined with Mr. Mackie. His grant, with the new house and garden, are the pride of the colony. The house is prettily situated on a gently-rounded eminence, rising from an extensive meadow flat, on the bank of the river. The house, when completed, is to be flat-roofed with boards, pitched and caulked like the deck of a ship. He has great quantities of melons and cucumbers, which probably produce as much money as pays his steward's salary—52l. a year—besides rations for a family of eleven persons. From the front of my little crib I can see into his hall door.

10th.—Opened my chest of books, which has been at Fremantle since my arrival; they are in better condition than I could have expected after so long and close a confinement, and looked very like, and, by association of thoughts, reminded me of old friends. The collection of English grasses