Proceeded to the settlement called the Ponds, a name which I suppose it derived from several ponds of water which are near the farms.  Here reside the fourteen following settlers.

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Men’s names.                      |  Trades. | Number of     | Number of acres
|          | acres in each | in cultivation.
|          | allotment.    |
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Thomas Kelly                      Servant             30          1 1/2
William Hubbard, and wife         Plasterer           50          2 1/4
Curtis Brand, and wife            Carpenter           50          3
John Ramsay, and wife             Seaman              50          3 1/2
William Field                     —–­                 30          2 1/2
John Richards*                    Stone-cutter        30 )        4 1/2
John Summers*                     Husbandman          30 )
——­Varnell                       —–­                 30          1
Anthony Rope**, and wife, and
two children                      Bricklayer          70          1
Joseph Bishop, and wife           None                50          1 1/2
Mathew Everingham, and wife       Attorney’s clerk    50          2
John Anderson, and wife           —–­                 50          2
Edward Elliot***                  Husbandman          30 )        2
Joseph Marshall***                Weaver              30 )
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[They (Richards and Summers) cultivate in partnership.] [*A convict who means to settle here; and is permitted to work in his leisure hours.] [***They (Elliot and Marshall) cultivate in partnership.]

The Prospect Hill terms of settlement extend to this place.  My private remarks were not many.  Some spots which I passed over I thought desirable, particularly Ramsay’s farm; and he deserves a good spot, for he is a civil, sober, industrious man.  Besides his corn land, he has a well laid out little garden, in which I found him and his wife busily at work.  He praised her industry to me; and said he did not doubt of succeeding.  It is not often seen that sailors make good farmers; but this man I think bids fair to contradict the observation.  The gentleman of no trade (his own words to me) will, I apprehend, at the conclusion of the time when victualling from the store is to cease, have the honour of returning to drag a timber or brick cart for his maintenance.  The little maize he has planted is done in so slovenly a style as to promise a very poor crop.  He who looks forward to eat grapes from his own vine, and to sit under the shade of his own fig-tree, must labour in every country.  He must exert more than ordinary activity.  The attorney’s clerk I also thought out of his province.  I dare believe that he finds cultivating his own land not half so easy a task as he formerly found that of stringing together volumes