The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 143 pages of information about The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811).

The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 143 pages of information about The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811).

In View, No.  II. taken from the East side of the Cove, the long building, with a flight of steps, is the County Gaol, of which a part is seen in No.  I. The White Building, to the right of the Prison, of which only three windows in front, and the warehouses around it, are discovered, belongs to Mr. Henry Kable, who, with Messrs. Lord and Underwood, have been very industrious and enterprising men in the oil and sealskin trade, etc. and possess a number of vessels and considerable estates in the colony.  The two small Houses, rather to the right, below the Gaol, built of brick, are used for the boats’ crews.  The Warehouses which hide part of these huts, and the House above, belong to Mr. Isaac Nichols; they are very extensive and commodious, and are built of stone.  The House, still further to the right, with a door, four windows, and two side-lights, in front, and kitchen detached, belongs to Mr. Thomas Moore, the principal shipwright, a man of unshaken integrity and large property.  The wharf near this part, is called the Hospital Wharf, where all merchandize, etc. is directed to be landed.  The Road leading on the hill, takes different directions to the houses and streets on the rocks.  The three long buildings, on the right of the road, are the General Hospitals; and in the front of them is the Government Dock-yard.  Next, to the right of the Hospitals, one building with eight windows and two doors in front, and the other with four windows and a door, with side-lights, in front, are the Barracks occupied by the Medical Staff.  The two next buildings are not tenanted by their late possessors.  The large buildings to the right, at the water’s edge, are the House and extensive Warehouses of Robert Campbell, Esq. a merchant, where a ship of large dimensions can load or unload, with any tide, alongside his wharf.  Near this place a vessel belonging to that gentleman some time ago caught fire, and after a great deal of trouble she was sunk, by which means the fire was extinguished; she was afterwards got up, and underwent such repairs as soon enabled her to proceed on her voyage.  Where the yellow flag is seen flying, on Dawes’s Point, there is a Battery, and Lookout-house, to communicate with the signals for ships in the offing at South Head.  The River round the point leads to several agricultural and farming districts, and to Parramatta.  On the hill is the Citadel, with the union flag flying, and two Government Wind-mills, one built of wood and the other of stone, the latter of which is unserviceable.  The other buildings belong to individuals indiscriminately.  The Canoes, with fires in them, belong to the natives.

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