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His Excellency

ARTHUR PHILLIP Esq.

Governor in Chief and Captain General

in and over the Territory of New South Wales,

landed in this Cove

with the first Settlers of this Country,

the 24th Day of January 1788;

and on the 15th Day of May

in the same Year,

being the 28th of the Reign of His present Majesty

GEORGE the THIRD,

The First of these Stones was laid.

The large store-house being completed, and a road made to it from the wharf on the west side, the provisions were directed to be landed from the victuallers, and proper gangs of convicts placed to roll them to the store.

Carpenters were now employed in covering in that necessary building the hospital, the shingles for the purpose being all prepared; these were fastened to the roof (which was very strong) by pegs made by the female convicts.

The timber that had been cut down proved in general very unfit or the purpose of building, the trees being for the most part decayed, and when cut down were immediately warped and split by the heat of the sun. A species of pine appeared to be the best, and was chiefly used in the frame-work of houses, and in covering the roofs, the wood splitting easily into shingles.