Volume 60: William Campbell letters, 1846-1894: No. 285

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[Page 285]

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themselves in the insolvent Court.  I may instance the failure of nearly all the men who attempted to improve the Willandra, and Lachlan Back Blocks, viz,

George & Frank Desailly, Mossgiel
Hugh Glass, Clare
C. Ryan, Kilfora
P. Brougham, Back Blocks
John Brougham, Alma &c.
Gidion [Lary?], Priory
W. [Kaleeph?], do.

ln fact very few of the men who took up back country made it pay, and the list of names I have given were practical men with sufficient capital to

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