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them not now infected
declare they have had
it a long time since [square bracket added] ].

These Blacks have
brought me the pleasing
intelligence that the
Cattle party are returning
with some of the Cattle
and two Horses. I had
felt some degree of alarm
for the safety of these
Men they having been
absent with only one
Months [sic] provision since
the 15th September last

2 ..... Mr Ralfe the
Surveyor reports in a
private communication
to me having discovered
an extensive Stratum of
Lime Stone of a very
superior quality - its
situation is about Six
miles from the Naviga-
tion of the head of Pipers
Creek, a branch of the
Maria bearing about
West, a small specimen

[on right] accompanies

[written in left margin]

Mr Ass't Surveyor Dixon
reports on 31/9937 falling
in with Cattle at Liverpool
Plains & securing two
Bullocks for his party; --
supposed to ^ [added above] (be) the animals
here alluded to

Capt Smyth inf'd

[on right] 9 Dec'r 1831

Mr Jas Smith ... 9 --- d'o ---