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the Timber grows as you observed about Botany Bay, at such a Distance that the ground may be Cultivated with little trouble but our situation does not permit us to go from the Cove in which I have fix'd the Settlement. The carrying Stores & Provisions inland, a single days Journey would be impossible. Mr. Nepean will tell you my reason for settling here, & such particulars respecting the Country as I have been able to inform him of. The Natives are far more numerous than I expected to find them. I have seen two hundred & twelve men in one Cove near Botany bay, & reckon fifteen hundred, in Botany bay, this Port, & Broken bay (a good harbour) including those who live on the intermediate Coast. I have traced them thirty Miles in land & having seen Smoke on Lansdown Hills, which are