(COYNE] THE TALBOT PAPERS 69 



Lieutenant-Colonel Burwell to Colonel Talbot. 



Limit between Eomney & Mersea. 



Monday 26th August 1816. 



I have the Honor to inform you that I have explored the Ground 

 through the Western Division of Eomney & Mersea to ascertain the most 

 eligible scite for Talbot Eoad to pass.The land in the vicinage of the 

 Two Creeks and their Branches, which are near Mersea, is very wet and 

 swampy near the Lake-The Branches of the two Creeks are very wide, 

 and full of deep dead water-They would be exceedingly difficult and 

 expensive to Bridge, in short the nature of the Ground requires the Eoad 

 to intersect the Limit between Eomney & Mersea a considerable distance 

 from the Shore of the Lake from which intersection it will be impos- 

 sible to lay the Eoad Westerly through Mersea upon Ground on which 

 it will be practicable to make a good Eoad without interfering with the 

 Blocks of Crown and Clergy Eeserves indeed I have examined all 

 through Mersea in rear of the Swamps & Marches of Point Pele and 

 find that Hazle Piloted me through the Eeserves when I was exploring 

 for the Eoad in 1812. As the instructions I received for the survey of 

 Talbot Eoad thro' the Western Dist. placed me under your directions, 

 I am to request that you will advise me on the subject. Be pleased to 

 advise me on the subject by the bearer. 

 I have the honor to be 

 Sir 



Your obdt. humble Sevt. 



M. BURW^ELL 



Dy. Surveyor. 

 Thomas Talbot Esquire 

 Port Talbot. 



(Endorsed) : Copy Letter to the Hon. Col. Talbot 26th Augst 

 1816. Official letter. Please to return this, as I have no copy of it. 



Dominion Arcliives, 

 Q. 322, pt. 2, p. 370. 



Talbot Célébrât ion. 1 



On the 8th of March, 1817, was held in Yarmouth, at the Talbot 

 Hotel, the Anniversary to commemorate the institution of the Talbot 

 Settlement. It was the most numerous, interesting and respectable 

 meeting ever collected in this district. About one o'clock the room be- 



1 See Appendix B. page 185. 



