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[Pencil sketch entitled:] SAUMAREZ COUNTY OF SANDON.

This Station was occupied in 1835 and is Situated on one of the tributaries of the Macleay river. The run is large and has excellent pasturage for Sheep and Cattle. Saumarez is 347 Miles fromSydney, 239 Miles from Maitland, and four Miles from Armadale. Gold was discovered on this river at the Rocky river in May 1832, it is fine & resembles Ovens river gold on which account it obtains the highest price in the Sydney Market.          A large Mountain named Bulleoronda by the Aborigines is near to the boundary line, and the Country occupied by this run is named by them the Bulloeronda Country. The principal portion of the Township of Armadale is built upon a plain which was one of the former Cattle Camps belonging to Saumarez run.

Armadale is Situated at an elevation of 2879 feet above the level of the Pacific Ocean, and this may be Stated to be the approximate elevation of the head Station at Saumarez.

The gold field at Rocky river this year 1856 has become as profitable as Some of the Victorian fields the diggers having discovered dry diggings on the ridges, the gold is found at from two to four feet from the Surface, this new field is about a Mile and a half from the former diggings.  The washing stuff at these new diggings is found beneath a layer of clean gravel & laying on the Surface of rotten bed rock, this stuff is about four inches in depth.

 

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