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[men]tion to the Governor that I shall like to know the distant between these 2 southern settlements, for if a possibility existed of journey likely to be made from the one to the other, I would gladly undertake it - but such, he said he did not like to answer me, for they wished not have any communication with each other. I plainly perceived that it was for fear of the convicts not being kept within bounds. If it is intended that these places are to be jails, & not colonies, this is good policy, but if the latter, quite the reverse. Witness the rapid increase of all settlements by a due intercourse with one another; even England itself, since the improvement of the roads & the inland navigable canals being made.
I remain your faithful
and humble sert [servant]
[signature of] George Caley
Parramatta July 18 1805
Gov King has just informed me that the master of a ship called the Sydney has profferd to take the Porpoise's Garden to England & will sail from here about Janry next. This will be an excellent opportunity by happening it so favorable a season. I hope I can fill up the variance with the plants of Van Diemens Land. I mean to come with it myself for it would be improper to trust it to other people.
July 20 1805