After dinner, I accompanied the governor from Rose-Hill to Prospect-Hill, which is about four miles distant:  we walked through a very pleasant tract of country, which, from the distance the trees grew from each other, and the gentle hills and dales, and rising slopes covered with grass, appeared like a vast park.  The soil from Rose-hill to Prospect-Hill is nearly alike, being a loam and clay.  It is remarkable, that although the distance between these two places is only four miles, yet the natives divide it into eight different districts.

Prospect-Hill is a small elevation, which commands a very extensive prospect of the country to the southward:  a range of very high mountains bound the view to the westward:  these mountains, which lie nearly north and south, are about forty miles from Prospect-Hill; and the intervening country is a thick forest:  the northernmost of these mountains is called Richmond-Hill, at the foot of which the Hawkesbury takes its rise from a bed of fresh water coal.

A river has been discovered by Captain Tench, of the marines, which runs near the foot of Lansdown-Hills; its direction appears to be north and south, but how far it runs to the southward cannot be ascertained, though there is great reason to suppose it runs a considerable way, as it does not empty itself into Botany-Bay, it therefore appears probable that it may come into the sea about Long-Nose, or Cape St. George, where there is an appearance of a good harbour.

There were at this time three of the natives who lived at Port Jackson, viz. a man about twenty-eight years old, a girl about thirteen, and a boy about nine years old.  The man was taken by stratagem, by Lieutenant Bradley, who enticed him and another native to the boat by holding up a fish:  they were both secured, a number of the natives being at the same time on the shore; these threw a number of spears, and although they are only made of wood, yet one of them went through four folds of the boat’s sail, and struck the apron of the boat’s stern with such violence as to split it.  One of these natives made his escape presently afterwards, but the other grew reconciled to his situation, and lives with the governor:  he is a very intelligent man, and much information may, no doubt, be procured from him, when he can be well understood.  Mr. Collins, the judge-advocate, is very assiduous in learning the language, in which he has made a great progress.

This native has no less than five names, viz. “-Bannelon, Wollewarre, Boinba, Bunde-bunda, Woge trowey_,” but he likes best to be called by the second:  he is a stout, well made man, about five feet six inches high, and now that the dirt is washed from his skin, we find his colour is a dark black:  he is large featured, and has a flat nose; his hair is the same as the Asiatics, but very coarse and strong:  he is very good-natured, being seldom angry at any jokes that may be passed upon him, and