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Should the Government at home decide on sending out Emigrants 

 this year, and that Cattle may be required for their use, I will request 

 you to keep my Stocks in view, being at a great loss how to dispose of 

 them, besides the wintering of so many as I have, is a great expense in 

 every way. I find that I was nothing too soon in leaving the chief's 

 hospitable quarters, and hope that Mrs. Robinson is doing as well as you 

 could desire. 



Believe me, very sincerelp y's, 



Thomas Talbot. 

 The Honble 



Peter Eobinson 

 Commissr of Crown Lands. 

 &c. &c. &c. 

 York. 



(From the Crown Lands Department.) 



Talbot to Hon. Peter Eobinson. 



Port Talbot, April 3, 1831. 



My Dear Sir: I have had the pleasure of receiving yours of the 

 28th of last month, and am charmed to hear such good accounts of Mrs. 

 Robinson and the young Lady.^ I decidedly approve of your plan for 

 laying out a road from the IST. E. corner of Carradoc to the Mouth of the 

 River aux Perche, and am quite delighted that such a measure occurred 

 to you, as I know of no part of the Province possessing greater capability 

 for forming a good settlement than that tract affords, situated as it is 

 between two noble rivers, the Sable on the north and Big Bear Creek on 

 the South, which can furnish the Settlers with excellent Fish to feed them 

 the greatest part of the year, besides the Land is of a very superior de- 

 scription, and in fact, when the communication is established, the dis- 

 tance from that part of Lake Huron to York will not be more than from 

 Sandwich. The mode I recommended you to adopt is, in the first place, 

 to employ an intelligent and interprising surveyor, to explore minutely 

 the Tract, commencing at the N". E. corner of Carradoc, not to take a 

 "Westerly course until he had crossed the Bear Creek, for it is evident 

 that there must be an elevation or Ridge separating the waters that run 

 into these Rivers, and when he finds sucK Ridge to follow it faithfullv 



1 Mary Amelia, seventh child, and daughter of Chief Justice Robinsen 

 Married Hon. Donald Mclnnes, of Hamilton, Ont., a member of the Senate 

 of Canada, who died in 1900. She died in 1879. 



