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me to try the rate of the chronometer by observations when we halted - &c - and he said respecting Lunars that he always worked the observations, and did not trust to tables - We bought some tobacco pipes for the natives - The morning had raining - a thunder shower - abt. 1/2 p. 6 - but the day turned out very fine - [?] Mr. McArthur & [?] the way [?] of poetry - and - he rehearsed some very beautiful lines addressing to the fringed violet - & promised to let me have them -  reached Wiseman's Inn on the Hawkesbury at 7 oclock - Saturday 26th Novr.  Mr Simpson called on me early and accompanied me, as did also his son, as far as Mr Manning's [?] where we had a grilled fowl and a feed for our horses - Mr Simpson informed me that in the latter end of 1823 or beginning of 1824 - six men set off from Wellington Valley to the N. with spades & many implements for a settlement - one of them was Brett a blacksmith from Birmingham, also there was a Sawyer and a Carpenter, & brickmaker -  Mr Simpson recommended we not to let the men eat in presence of natives as this had a tendency to make them irritable - also he gave me a remedy for snake bite - viz. by Cupping with wine-glass by burning a paper dipt in rum - He requested me to ask them in a whisper for Goyne & Noyar - (the natives) - ap these were their  names for Topaz & Ruby - charmed items [?] of theirs - Mr. Simpson also sent with me an assigned surgeon named Suttor - a  great  accommodation on Mr. Simpson's part - reached young Wiseman's in the evening after Dark -

Sunday 27 Novr, Mr Finch [?] called early & breakfasted - he begged me to allow him to come to me at Liverpool Plains - that he might afterwards take back the dispatches - and to I consented - On my way towards Mr. Blaxland's met Mr  White (at Dulhunty's) and we proceeded forwards together - down the Wollombi -  and reached Mr Blaxlands just as it got quite dark. The two young Mr Blaxlands accommodated us very comfortably - Mr  B. informed me that some years ago the people of some Dutch settlement (Fredk. Isld. or some such named) murdered their Governor and went off nobody knows where - the conjectures that those were some of the men seen by Barber seem a little more probable. 

Monday 28 Novr. A warm morning - We started about nine and rode all day. Mr. White did not readily find the way - and we only got to Dr Bowman's abt. 1/2 an hour before sunset - 

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