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I have with great attention perused five different accounts, and not two of them agree, with respect to the Soil, and the account given to Colonel Collins was such, that he gave up all index of its being a fit place for a Settlement. Those who have been there say no large Crafts can enter the place, without running great risk, on account of the strong tides - but it is to be hoped, when the Shoals are buoyed, those difficulties will be removed.
Lord Hobart states the Settlement at Port Dalrymple is not to be considered, so much in an Agricultural point of view, but Political. I thought there was no time to be lost in making myself acquainted as soon as possible with the prospect of its becoming an object of future encouragement for Settlers before many were sent, which might prevent those People being disappointed in their views, and save a great expence in removing them from one Place to another. With these disinterested motives I requested the Governor would permit me to go in a small Colonial Vessel of Forty five Tons, with a Detachment consisting of one Captain, two Serjeants and thirteen Privates, and in another small Vessel I ordered a Subaltern with one Serjeant and