Volume 01: Production and resources of the northern and western districts of New South Wales, 1854 [ca. 1850-1857] - Page 172
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[Page 172]
[Notebook page] 167
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[Pencil sketch showing emu and chicks, a farmstead and a high conical shaped and sharply peaked mountain. The sketch is of:] Balblair County of Sandon. Native Name Oldnanbilla
Balblair is situated on the Sugarloaf the Southern branch of Clarince river which rises in the Balemoney[?] ranges. During the early occupation Balblair formed part of the extensive run of Falconer, and is three miles from that township & twenty eight from Armadale. Chandlers Peak[?] is on the run tho above observing[?] [Indecipherable] to this mountain which is 4501 feet above the level of the Pacific Ocean. This lofty [Indecipherable] leaf[?] Peak is seen at a great distance from every part of the table land of New England.
Balblair was taken up as a seperate station by Roderick McLennan Esq in 1848 & is now occupied as a sheep run. Gold was found at the station in December 1849 this attracted little attention at the time; the great discovery of gold in New South Wales occurred on the 12th of Feby 1837 which caused a search to be made for the prescious metal in various parts of New England where gold fields have been found at Rocky River Dundee, Wolbuoroo[?], Wolamumbi, & Camerons Crest or Guera[?] diggings, which last gold field is within a few miles of Balblair.