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granted at a more distant point, 1000,000 acres at first & 1000,000 more when 1000,000 fine woold sheep are actualy in existence on the first 1000,000 & so on.
Col Paterson complains to me of the asperity of some expressions you have usd to him I fear I ought not to doubt of his having richly deserved them yet as I sincerely wish the Colony to prosper I as sincerely desire that you two may again be friends & well pull together for the good of the whole I have written to him on the subject & stated the necessity of a reconciliation on his part as I am confident that no well regulated Government will suffer a Governor & a Lt. Governor to remain together if on bad terms & that in that case he must be recalld. I cannot therefore but hope that a little relaxation on your part may bring about a reconciliation & that a sense of the value of your friendship to the Colonel may make it both permanent & sincere on his part.
I observe that I have paid in very little money on Caleys account to your agent, I wish you would favor me with a request to pay in more I should be thankfull as I do not like to be in debt in Money Matters to a man to whom I owe so much for literary assistance.
I send to you with this two Volumes of the Natural History of the Paraguay for the Chapter in the second Volume which gives some account of the manner of managing horned stock in an open country. Some hints from it may be usd by you & be usefull the chief thing to be wishd for is some persons from Buenos Ayres [Buenos Aires] skilld in the management & the use of the Bullet & Thong, this may be effected by the S Whalers & shall be proposed to Government.
I doubt whether you did well or not in killing the Savage Bulls they are the defenders of the Herd against Savages, new ones however will spring up from among the younger ones within a fortnight & be in a month quite savage as their Predecessors.
I thank you very much for the Gazettes you have been so good as to send me your Papers are rather under the influence of Government & no opposition Gazette can yet be set up. They give in my opinion a most unequivocal testimony of the flourishing state of the Colony & bring forward some