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merchant ships up to Richmond Hills where it divides into 2 small streams it is from 300 to 200 feet wide, in Floods it Rises 30 feet above its usual Level, the banks are coverd with Timber & afford Rich Light Soil for a considerable extent.
20 miles to the westward of Rose Hill is another River which we have calld Nepean it is from 300 to 400 feet wide & Rises in Floods as high as the other into which it probably falls the Land several miles to the Southward & so to the west. Quite to the banks of Nepean are as fine a soil for tillage as most of England some few spots excepted which bear a very small proportion to the whole. I intend this spot for settlers & have no doubt that within 3 years of their arrival there will be a market well supplied with hogs goats corn & Poultry of all which there has been a great increase.
Rats
have destroyd more then 12,000 wt. of Provisions since we landed.
Shortland Island
The Supply cruizd several days about the Latitude & Longitude in which Lieut Shortland sent me word he had discoverd an Island but could not see it, the weather prevented [indecipherable] was in like manner to have [sought?] [indecipherable] likewise noticd by the same gentleman.