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any reduction of the Ration; the Young grass will soon be up again so that our Expence on this account will not be very great
In the beginning of Feby. it began to rain which serv'd very much to extinguish the living Embers which were so generally Scattered thro' the woods, & also contributed much to the recovery of the Crops of Maize which were then likely to disappoint us.
The Wheat harvest Speaking generally has turn'd out tollerably good and I doubt not that when we have opend the Country more we shall be less liable to so much fire. our Live stock are thriving & increasing fast, and our Land were it in good hands woud be much more productive, for the Worthless & abandon'd Characters who have been permitted in such Numbers to become Settlers in different parts of the Country, do not make the most of it, and give me Much trouble; those sent as free Settlers from England are Many of them impositions upon Government, they have no turn for farming in this Country, where much labour & diligence is required, they amuse themselves in Speculations of some other kind not of any benefit to the Colony & are a dead Weight on the Shoulders of Government. -
Allow one Sir Joseph to assure you, that from the time I arriv'd here up to the present day, and a probability of it continuing for some time longer, My task has been & still is the most Arduous & difficult I ever was engagd in; the duty of my predecesser & Brother Officer Govr. Phillip was a pleasure, a Mere Amusement compar'd with Mine and had the common regulations Establishd at first been permitted to Continue with such