bad. I will be bound to make it do with the aid of manure, but
without cattle it will fail. The greatest check upon me is, the dishonesty
of the convicts who, in spite of all my vigilance, rob me almost every
night.

The annexed return will show the number of persons of all descriptions
at Rose Hill, at this period. On the morning of the 17th, I went down to
Sydney.

Here terminates the transcription of my diary. It were vain to suppose,
that it can prove either agreeable or interesting to a majority of readers
but as this work is intended not only for amusement, but information, I
considered it right to present this detail unaltered, either in its style
or arrangement.

A return of the number of persons employed at Rose Hill, November 16th,
1790.

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How Employed | Troops | Civil dept | Troops | Convicts |
| | |Wives | Children| Men | Women | Children|
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Storekeeper 1
Surgeon 1
Carpenters 24
Blacksmiths 5
Master Bricklayer 1
Bricklayers 28
Master Brickmaker 1
Brickmakers 52
Labourers 326*
Assistants to the
provision store 4
Assistants to the
hospital 3
Officers' servants 6
Making Clothing 50
Superintendants 4
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Total number of
persons 552| 29 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 450 | 50 | 13 |
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[*Of these labourers, 16 are sawyers. The rest are variously employed in
clearing fresh land; in dragging brick and timber carts; and a great number
in making a road of a mile long, through the main street, to the governor's
house.]

CHAPTER XI.

Farther Transactions of the Colony in November, 1790.

During