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Port Jackson 28th Nov.r 1799
Dear Sir
I have the pleasure of informing you of our safe arrival at this place on the 21st inst.after a voyage of nine weeks from St Salvadore six of which we were mostly under water from a fall I got in consequence of a very high sea I had the misfortune to have three of my ribs, broken but am now perfectly recovered & have been able to make an excursion to the Hawkesbury that I might be able to give you the necessary information respecting the state of that settlement. The wheat is superior to any thing I ever saw and the report the Governor sends home by their conveyance is supposed to be Sixty Thousand Bushels. I have sent you a specimen of the straw which is not so strong as the generality of it there is also some of the Native Flax which grows all over the country but near the river it
June 13.