Newcastle now stands on this site.) It affords pasture for sheep, its soil in general being good...Dr.Harris and Mr.
Barrallier penetrated to some distance inland and met a native who followed them for some time and left them.

Our native Dick also thought proper to leave us in an excursion we made with him into the country.
Colonel Paterson discovered some copper and iron ores, the latter strongly impregnated and rich in metal.

The seine was hauled and plenty of excellent fish caught, particularly mullet, with a fish much resembling the herring which I am inclined to think go in shoals.

On an island in the harbour a tree is found, the quality of whose timber much resembles that of the ash, and from the great numbers growing there has given this name to the island.
"Of this timber I had orders to send a quantity to Sydney, and had brought out sawyers for that purpose, but as every object could not be at once accomplished they were employed in the meantime in cutting down and sawing into planks a tree, the bark of which is much like cork.

The timber...is light, close, and durable, and promises to stand against the effects of worms on the bottoms of vessels.