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to insist on the Land being situated in the Cowpastures was that the Secretary of State for the time Lord Cambden ordered it to be given me then –  Mr. McArthur having also obtained his in the same quarter, at his own express request – I am ignorant of the state of my Estate as to fences but I believe Mr. McArthur to have put fences round his own and in that case if it be so I conclude that I have naturally been benefitted by it. 

In making choice of a situation for the Land I am to receive in Exchange I should think that it might be found much more convenient than that of my present Estate, and of this you will be the best judge, and I am assured that you will in concert with my friends Mr. and Mrs. McArthur rather improve than deteriorate my Situation as a New S. Wales Proprietor and which indeed Mr. McArthur has always professed his proposition as calculated to do – 

This arrangement too when carried into effect may be the means of enabling you to make my new Estate subservient to the use and service of our joint flocks, a matter that will, without doubt increasingly readily occur to your own mind and be acted upon accordingly. 

Only bear in mind that it would never suit me to receive Land with perishable Buildings upon it –  for which I might be supposed as paying, by receiving a smaller quantity or less valuable Land in consideration of the said buildings, because the Land can only acquire its real value to me many years hence – by which time the erections or other improvements would no longer be of any Value. 

I have now laid the affair candidly before you, and I have no hesitation in committing the future management of the thing to your kind and friendly judgment and discretion. 
 

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