parramatta

The factory at Parramatta, in former times, was a mart of women.

One of these gangs, consisting of three or four hundred convicts, was stationed at Castlehill, a few miles north of Parramatta.

A party of one hundred convicts were sent from the Atlantic to Parramatta, the remainder were landed and disposed of at Sydney.

At Parramatta the principal labour was the getting in and housing the maize, and preparing ground for the next year's grain.

The works during this month, both at Sydney and at Parramatta, went on but slowly.