quite a Parklike appearance and a few hundred Pounds expended in improvements would make it one of the prettiest places in the District. Amongst the neatest farms in the neighbourhood of Mr. Turtons (the Wesleyan Missionary residence) I may class that of Mr. Wheeler, he informed me however that he was only a Tenant on this Estate and considers himself a great loser by not being able to obtain possession of his own land; as Mr. Wheeler himself has drawn out a very lucid statement of the peculiar hardship of his case, which statement will accompany this report I shall not here make further allusion to it than to express an earnest wish that this highly respectable person in common with many others similarly situated may shortly obtain that to which they are entitled. The wheat throughout the settlement has generally speaking a very healthy colour; I must however except that between the Town and Captn. Creagh's residence which looks both yellow and parched and will I fear produce but a poor return for the labour bestowed on its cultivation. As far as it is possible to judge at present, I think I shall not be far out in my calculations in putting the average crop this year at 25 bushels per acre; there are many of course who will obtain more, but a great number are likely, if the dry weather continues to obtain much less. Taken as a whole, the Messieurs Davy have the heaviest crop and it has attracted my attention more on account of its having been grown upon Fern land, which fully proves that land of that description can be made as productive as timber land