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in the Country, provided it offered any visible means of
support independant of Government, which you may be
assured in the nature of things can never be the Case. We
have now been landed nearly eleven Months, which has
pretty well shewn us the regular vicissitudes of the Year
consequently what may reasonably be expected from seasons
without having a more flattering prospect before us, than just
being able to save the seed sown; nor can we raise as much
vegetables as will keep the Survey under, which prevails as
much among the troops, Convicts, Women, and Children as
I ever remember to have seen it on board any ship in the course
of my acquaintance with the Sea service, which is upwards
of nine Years, indeed the prospect of raising Grain for our
support is so very unpromising, that it has been found
necessary to send his Majesty's ship Sirius to the Cape of
Good hope for flour an article which we run short of, should any
accident happen to her on ships sent from England with
provisions to this Country (which must always be the Case for
it is morally impossible that it ever can support itself) what
will become of us heaven only knows for the Country would not
furnish us with even one weeks subsistence — Mons Perouse
and Captain, Clonard the French Circumnavigators, put
into Botany Bay since our arrival to repair some damages
and build two Boats brought in frames from France with
them, where they remained six weeks during which time
many friendly visits were interchanged between us & they
declare in their whole route they never saw so unpromising
and miserable a Country as this, and were much surprised
to find our little Governor determined to attempt Colonizing
a part of the world, which they thought, and I am sure it is
the belief of every person here, that neither time, Numbers, or
Money can ever make any thing of. His Excellency's
partiality to Rule and Govern added to the many praises
he has often been heard (to the surprize of every person around)

Identifier: | JB/119/098/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	098	Info in main headings field	white's letter from botany bay
Image	002	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::edmeads & pine [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward cooke
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39609
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