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that we may not in the hurry of much other business be forgot, but that Salt provision Cloathing & Tools of all kinds be frequently sent, we shall want little else - Our Corn (Wheat) on the ground now looks as beautifully luxuriant as I ever saw in any part of the World, & setting aside such Accidents as all Countrys are liable to, We shall have a very rich & abundant harvest To you Sir who have interested yourself so much in favor of this Colony it must be pleasing to be told by a person who was concernd in its first Establishment, & whose opinions of its Success at that time were not very Sanguine - that many of the Opinions form'd in the early part of our time here were much too hastily fix'd, we now see & know from pleasing experience, that the Judgement of many individuals were too precipitately given & upon too limited an examination of the Country, We now know also that there are extensive tracts of rich & fertile Soil; In some of the Wheat fields which I have gone thro' since I arrivd I have thrust a Stick Six feet deep without getting to the bottom of a rich black prolifick Soil where we formerly supposed Cultivation almost impossible, & it was generally believd that water woud be found very difficient, but that does not now appear to be the case for in almost every deep Valley formd by two contiguous hills we find a Stream of water sufficient for all the purposes of the Farmer - Some Settlements which have been lately formd on the Banks of the Hawkesbury River, are delightful & promising, & altho, in the early part of their establishment the heavy rain occasiond