Volume 62: Walter Stevenson Davidson papers, 1815-1846: No. 127

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Again to the northward the land is not taken (at least on the west side of the Bella Leppa Creek): the east side is Jones's run--for several miles above Carleroy.  A very desirable addition to your land would be two sections on the west side of the Bella Leppa Creek which I have marked in the chart A. and B.  In the event of these being purchased for you, it would secure you four miles additional water frontage, and a considerable back run, for no one would come to take land between two sections belonging to another person.  But under other(and it must be better) management, before that requires to be done, I hope you will be able to say and feel that your New South Wales concerns are more profitable than they have ever yet been.  Again, on the east side of Carleroy, you are bounded by the River Krui; on the opposite of which Mr. Jones's lands lie, as you will see by the chart. 

Having now told you the position of your land in the country, I will say a little more about it.  I had been told of the beauty and fine quality of your Property here, before I left home, and since I arrived here, by a great many people; but you will be glad to hear that it far surpassed my most sanguine ideas or expectations.  The country for a great many miles round here is very fine indeed; the character of it is a whinstone, and very open undulating country, with, in many places, clear open flats of several hundred acres, without a single tree; these flats are most frequently met with on the banks of rivers.  This is a beautiful grass country, the tops of the very highest hills being covered with verdure, very superior to any other part of the Colony I have seen; and it is generally accounted the best the best Sheep country in the Colony. The soil is a beautiful black loam, and in many places is beyond twenty feet in depth, and much more; no such thing as manure is applied to the land.  Of all this beautiful country I have seen no place equal to 'Carleroy', which is a most lovely place, every inch of the property, - like a nobleman's park, and just as thinly timbered, with beautiful clear flats along the river, of from 80 and 100 to 300 acres fit for cultivation at any time, without the trouble and expense of felling the timber, which they have in almost every other part of the Colony. 

The section lately purchased for you by Jones is quite the same sort of country, and well watered by the Willy Wally Creek, which runs through your section towards the river, and so hems in the land between the Krui and your new purchase, as to render it unavailable for any other person.  From this account of it, which is not at all exaggerated, but rather the contrary, you may form an idea of what sort of Sheep country it is.  A good many Flocks of the 'Joint Flocks' are kept on it now.
Having now given you a account of your land, I will proceed to state the exact order, or rather disorder, of the 'Joint Flocks', as they are at present.