rather that want should be felt in his own government than in that dependency; and as they would be generally eight or ten weeks later than this colony in receiving their supplies, by reason of the time which the ships necessarily required to refit after coming in from sea, he purposed furnishing them with a proportion of provisions for three months longer than the provisions in store at this place would last:  and his excellency took leave of that settlement, by completing, as fully as he was able, this design.

[* Mr. Thomas Livingstone, at a salary of L50 per annum.]

He was now about taking leave of his own government.  The accommodations for his excellency and the officers who were going home in the Atlantic being completed, the detachment of marines under the command of Lieutenant Poulden embarked on the 5th, and at six o’clock in the evening of Monday the 10th Governor Phillip quitted the charge with which he had been entrusted by his Sovereign, and in the execution of which he had manifested a zeal and perseverance that alone could have enabled him to surmount the natural and artificial obstacles which the country and its inhabitants had thrown in his way.

The colony had now been established within a few weeks of five years; and a review of what had been done in cultivation under his excellency’s direction in that time cannot more properly be introduced than at the close of his government.

Previous to the sailing of the Britannia on the 24th of last October, an accurate survey of the whole ground in cultivation, both on account of the crown, and in the possession of individuals, was taken by the surveyor-general, and transmitted to England by that ship; and from the return which he then made, the following particulars were extracted: 

GROUND IN CULTIVATION, THE 16TH OCTOBER 1792
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Acres  Acres  Acres        Ground    Total
in     in     in    Garden cleared   number
wheat  barley maize ground of timber of acres
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At Parramatta                3/4     71/2    308     —      —       3161/4
At and leading to         1711/2    14     511     —      —       6961/2
Toongabbie
Total public ground       1721/4    211/2    819     —      —      10123/4

Belonging to Settlers and others At Parramatta, (1 The governor’s garden — 1/2 2 (3 vines — 61/2 Garden ground belonging to different people, including convicts’ gardens — — — 104 — 104 At Parramatta, 1 settler 3 — 18 1 7 29 At Prospect Hill, four miles to the westward of Parramatta, 18 settlers 111/4 — 84 — — 951/4 At the Ponds, two miles to the northeast of Parramatta, 16 settlers 101/4 21/4 63 31/2 161/2 951/2 At the Northern boundary