Volume 62: Walter Stevenson Davidson papers, 1815-1846: No. 126

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Well, after the March lambing, I intend, as I said before, to go down the country, and do not know how soon after that I may be up again; but before next shearing time, (November, 1836,) I hope I will have received answers to this and my former letters to you, and by then I will know how you propose conducting things in future.  Till such time as that comes to hand, I will be much better employed seeing how things go on at -------, for I have already seen enough there and elsewhere, to be able to see the very bad plans pursued here ; and till such time as I have to do with your concerns here in real earnest, the best place for me to be in is that in which I will learn most.  In these sheets you will find repeated the contents of letters which I have before written you, but now that I am on the spot and have seen all, I give you every account I can of it, as though it were the first time I ever wrote you on the subject.  What I now write is from my own observation during the time I have been here, and not from what I have heard from anyone whatever; and now I will commence giving you as correct an account of it all as I possibly can.

"Your property of Carleroy on the Krui River, contains, as you are aware, 5,120 acres; and an additional section of 610 acres, lately purchased for you by Mr Jones, adjoining Carleroy, is all the land you have here.  I have sent you a sort of chart of the country on the Krui about Carleroy.  I copied it from one Mr Jones lent me; and though not particularly neat, is quite correct, which is all we want.  By it you will see that we have three miles of river frontage, in a straight line from where it enters, to the spot where it leaves your land,—and following the windings of the river, considerably more than five miles ; also a mile of the Bella Leppa Creek,* on both sides, from where it enters Carleroy, to its junction with the Krui.  The section which Mr Jones purchased for you joins the south end of Carleroy, and on it is a very nice stream called the Willy Wally Creek.  Proceeding down the river south from Carleroy, the banks become precipitous and rocky, and the country more thickly timbered ; and such is its character for many miles further down the river.  There is no occupied land down the river from Carleroy, and, of course, the run of the land there belongs to that Property.  It is not available for Sheep, owing to the banks of the river being so rocky, and the Sheep cannot get easily to water ;  but it is a very fine run for cattle, which are better able to get down the precipice to water.  West of Carleroy, for a mile and a half in one place, and more in another, the land is unoccupied, and will be so, as you monopolize the river frontage ; so that is your back run also.
 

*  The term Creek in this country applied to a rivulet.