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Burwell to Talbot. 



Port Talbot 23rd August 1821. 



I have the honour to inform you that according to your desire, I 

 have been out to examine the reported Salt spring on the Eiver Sable 

 about which so much has been said, and not considering myself suffi- 

 ciently qualified to examine its waters satisfactorily, I hired Thomas 

 Pool of Westminster to go with me, and the result is that he pronounces 

 them capable only of making Sulphur, AUum, and Salt Petre,— I have 

 taken his affidavit which you will find inclosed — You will also find in- 

 closed several pieces of the sulphureous matter which had congealed 

 upon the Eocks by the Water passing over them into the Sable — And 

 beg leave also to inclose to you a map which I have made of the country 

 from where the Eiver Sable leaves Lobo to Lake Huron. The informa- 

 tion given me on this subject was by Polly Allen or Polly Crow, and 

 m)' Old Axeman Orrin Lewis, the latter of whom was through to Lake 

 Huron with a Pocket Compass in July last; — And although the Map 

 may differ a good deal from the true courses of the Sable, and the Dis- 

 tance to Lake Huron, it may notwithstanding be useful should you 

 think proper to transmit it to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor. 



I have the Honor to be 

 Sir 



Your obdt. Sevt. 



M. Burwell 



Dy. Surveyor. 

 To 



The Honble 



Thomas Talbot Esqr. 

 &c. &c See. 



(The letter is endorsed) : Eespecting a sketch of the Sable and a Memo- 

 randum respecting a Salt Spring. 



Eichard i Talbot to Thomas Talbot. 



My Dear 'Thos. London Sept 16th— 23. 



I am just come up from Leamington Spa, where I received your 

 letter of the 19th June, about a fortnight ago. I immediately wrote to 

 Mr. Wilmot Horton, to request a copy of his paper on Emigration, and 

 received a civil answer from him, stating that he was in the country for 

 some time, and that the paper could not be got at, till he returned to 



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1 Afterward first Baron Talb >t of Malahide. 



