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Government House Sydney
New South Wales 7 Feby. 1807
My Dear Sir
I have now the satisfaction of communicating to you, by Governor King, the state of the Colony in addition to the account I sent you by the Alexander in November last, since which the Wheat Harvest has been got in, and by a laborious personal examination I have ascertained its produce to be extremely short of what it was first expected. This, together with the innundation, may be attributed to the seed last season being very much damaged by the Moth - to the probability that a part of the Seed which was sown did not vegetate - to the seed being very scarce whereby many of the Settlers did not sow much more than half the quantity they would have done on an acre of
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