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Parramatta, December 13th 1794

Dear Madam,

I am convinced you will receive with peculiar satisfaction the informationmof our safe arrival in New Spouth Wales. I shall not soon forget your kind attention and civility shewn to me in London, tho' transported to this distant part of the universe. I have met with nothing so bad as we might have expected before we sailed from England. Since we arrived in this colony we have been very well provided with all the common necessaries of life. The climate is fine, and healthy, and agrees very well with my constitution. I have not suffered one single day of sickness since we came here. The country is very romantic, beautifully formed by nature, and will be most delightful when it becomes a little more opened. It abounds with beautiful shrubs and ferns of various kinds. We are settled at Parramatta, about 14 miles distant from Sydney, where Mr Johnson resides. There is a fine river, which runs up from Sydney to Parramatta, and boats continually passing to and fro, so that we can easily visit each other. I have one companion at Parramatta, the commanding officer's wife, (Mrs Macarthur) a very pleasant agreeable lady, a mother of three fine