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Holme to Talbot. — Memorandum of proposition. 



Mr. Holme proposes to cut a canal 20 ft. wide at the surface and 

 sufficiently deep for all useful purposes in the erection of a Grist Mill, 

 and other machinery — the Canal is to be made in the track marked in 

 Pencil on the Map of the Town Plot of London — The water to be dis- 

 charged into the Eiver at the foot of the marshy place. To have all the 

 land between the Canal and the Eiver — the Ground on which the Canal 

 is to belong to him, and one Eoad along the N"orth side of it, so as not 

 to have any one interfere with him The Mill to be a Merchant Mill with 

 two pairs of Burr Stones, and a Saw Mill and a fulling and carding 

 Mill — He will have to erect a Dam across the Eiver at the upper end 

 of the Eiver mark 5 ft. high with an inclined plain according to Law — 

 He thinks his outlay in expenses of the Canal & erections would be 

 1250 Cy. — All these advantages he wishes to be granted him free of 

 expense — He wishes to commence the Canal, and preparing timber for 

 the Mills immediately — about 14 acres. 



Port Talbot 29th Augt. 1829. 



(Endorsed) 



Memm. frcm Mr. Holme respecting a 



mill site in the 'Town Plot of 



London For Col. Talbot 



29th Aufft. 1829. 



Talbot to Hon. Peter Eobinson.i 



Port Talbot, April 12, 1830. 



My Dear Sir : It has occurred to me that Clergy and Canada Com- 

 pany's Blocks of Eeserves in the Township of Harwich would be much 

 advanced in value by causing a line for a road to be surveyed thro' them, 



ly respected residents of the township of Aldboroug-h. In his early years he 

 was an outspoken opponent of Colonel Talbot, but he became his champion and 

 defender. Towards the close of his lon.a: life of more than ninety years, he 

 published in the St. Thomas press letters in which he testified to Talbot's 

 kind heartedness, and defended him from the char.^e of intemperance, as to 

 which, however, see Mrs. Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles, 

 and Edward Ermatinger's Life of Colonel Talbot, which confirm the local 

 tradition. 



1 The Honorable Peter Robinson, elder brother of Chief Justice Robinson, 

 was the oldest child of Christopher Robinson of the Queen's Rangers. He was 

 born in New Brunswick in 1785. He represented the county of York for 



