'Extract of a Letter from Lieut. John Shortland of H.M.S. Reliance, to his Father...', 10 September 1798 (Series 23.38) - No. 0002

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the same Day 75; it is said, and I believe correctly that there has been 270 counted in 3 Herds and on the same Day; they therefore could not have been counted twice over, they are straggled about, all over the Country on the West Side of the Nepean; I have travelled myself 62 Miles from Sydney Cove to the S.W. where we begin to fall in with the Cattle.