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about 8ft high, of she oak saplings, let into the ground about two feet (2ft) touching each other. It was boggy thro (sic) the fence, & the bullocks only went a few feet. Could not cross with the dray for two days, & the bullocks seemed to like swimming backwards & forwards. Two of us at a time tailed them until the water was not quite a swim, & then we put our good tarpaulin into the dray first, & put everything into it, & nothing got wet.
Two of the boys counted 52 native bears in about 11/2miles in the lane, & we saw 7 or 8 bears in one tree near a creek, a few days after. A lot of them were sick, apparently with the wet, perhaps they had fluke, but not being sheep men we did not know, & don't think they had foot rot.
Some of our horses got the STRANGLES which made it a bit awkward, & in a lane near JOHNDARYN the wet was
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