Report written by George Caley titled 'A Short account, relativeto the proceedings in New South Wales, from the year 1800 to 1803,with hints and critical remarks', ca May 1803 (Series 18.045) - No. 0011

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These are the chief vegetables in use.  As for varieties, they are but in few gardens. Grasses do not  answer, for they are subject to be blited, even in all stages of growth.  Apples seem to do well, and so do figs.  But peaches are beyond expectation, by succeeding so well; and no doubt, but they will in a few years supply the colonists with good beverage.  And by a proper management, there is great hopes that culinary plants may be cultivated advantageously.

Of good workmanship I can say but little must be silent, yet I have often heard it said in England, that the people that were transported were the best of workmen, but I find this is a prejudiced error, for among the many that have been sent here, there are very few of that description.  They are chiefly run-away apprentices, and such as neither could nor would work for a living, besides numbers that have been brought up entirely to thieving.

Houses in general are nothing more than simple wretched huts, particularly the farmers.  The walls are wattled and plastered with clay, the roof thatched, the floor frequently nothing more than