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A Method Of Encreasing Potatoes,
My method of procuring plants , after a mild winter , is to go ( about the month of May ) over the fields where potatoes were-planted the preceding year , and pull up from among the corn all the shoots produced by the potatoes left in the ground the preceding autumn which had escaped the digger , and plant these shoots in the same manner as above , viz . the same as cabbage plants . I am , & c . Donniiwion , March i , 1795 . JOHN LOCKETT .
New South Wales,
NEW SOUTH WALES ,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE , SIR , OBSERVING in your Magazine for last month an extract from a letter giving some account of Botany Bay , I conceived the ht not be deemed entireluninte
following additional particulars mig y - resting . I received the information from my brother , " on his return from a voyage to the above place , where he stopped some weeks ; and his account was corroborated by a very judicious acquaintance , who went , at the same time , as Mate on board one of the transports em ployed to carry over the convicts to the Settlement at Pari Jackson . September 1795 . *
JN this vast tract of country there seem to be scarce any regular returns of seasons , which must be a great impediment to cultivation . There are instances , at " uncertain periods , of no rain for six months together ; thunder and lightning are almost continual 00 the coast , but seldom attended with dangerous consecjuenc . es . This country , the soil of which is light , abounds with wood and a wonderful and
beautiful variety of botanical productions . The natives , who do not appear to be numerous , have veiy un ? handscme features , are savage , almost in the literal sense of the word ; perfidious and revengeful , and , except a few who have had some intercourse with the settlers , go entirely naked : they seem to bealmost alto , gether ignorant of the manner of constructing a hut or any kind of habitation , living in holes in the rocks , when not employed in pro , curing their food , & c . Huts were erected for several of thein , but were soon abandoned .
Their subsistence is principally obtained from fishing , at which they are expert , though with wretched materials : they have a method of using a kind of spear to strike the fish with , very long , with several prongs , pointed with pieces of the bones of the Kangaroo , fastened , on with a kind of black gum and sharpened with a shell , haying no iron instruments . Most of them are usually armed with a club , or rather cudgel , of a hard heavy wood , sharp at one end ; and many VOL . V . L 1
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Method Of Encreasing Potatoes,
My method of procuring plants , after a mild winter , is to go ( about the month of May ) over the fields where potatoes were-planted the preceding year , and pull up from among the corn all the shoots produced by the potatoes left in the ground the preceding autumn which had escaped the digger , and plant these shoots in the same manner as above , viz . the same as cabbage plants . I am , & c . Donniiwion , March i , 1795 . JOHN LOCKETT .
New South Wales,
NEW SOUTH WALES ,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE , SIR , OBSERVING in your Magazine for last month an extract from a letter giving some account of Botany Bay , I conceived the ht not be deemed entireluninte
following additional particulars mig y - resting . I received the information from my brother , " on his return from a voyage to the above place , where he stopped some weeks ; and his account was corroborated by a very judicious acquaintance , who went , at the same time , as Mate on board one of the transports em ployed to carry over the convicts to the Settlement at Pari Jackson . September 1795 . *
JN this vast tract of country there seem to be scarce any regular returns of seasons , which must be a great impediment to cultivation . There are instances , at " uncertain periods , of no rain for six months together ; thunder and lightning are almost continual 00 the coast , but seldom attended with dangerous consecjuenc . es . This country , the soil of which is light , abounds with wood and a wonderful and
beautiful variety of botanical productions . The natives , who do not appear to be numerous , have veiy un ? handscme features , are savage , almost in the literal sense of the word ; perfidious and revengeful , and , except a few who have had some intercourse with the settlers , go entirely naked : they seem to bealmost alto , gether ignorant of the manner of constructing a hut or any kind of habitation , living in holes in the rocks , when not employed in pro , curing their food , & c . Huts were erected for several of thein , but were soon abandoned .
Their subsistence is principally obtained from fishing , at which they are expert , though with wretched materials : they have a method of using a kind of spear to strike the fish with , very long , with several prongs , pointed with pieces of the bones of the Kangaroo , fastened , on with a kind of black gum and sharpened with a shell , haying no iron instruments . Most of them are usually armed with a club , or rather cudgel , of a hard heavy wood , sharp at one end ; and many VOL . V . L 1