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must refer you to Govr.. King, who can point out, as he has done to me the bad consequences which will attend giving Grants of Land in that Neighborhood in the Westside of the Nepean, and which he thinks has been done through some misapceptionprehension of its consequence to the increase of the Wild Herds, connected with the breeding of Sheep; while there is abundance of land in this side the River which is very elligible, unless the occupancy was equally allowable to all.
The Sheep in time will increase in number and quality, both in Carcass and in the Fleece; but the latter is not an object which every one can yet entirely attend to. Herdsmen are scarce, and if a few Individuals were to have all the Servants they pretend should be allowed them to this pursuit, the Agricultrist would want his labourers, and the Inhabitants grain for their common consumption.