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delightful and the Roads are excellent, and I have many other points 

 to talk with you upon, and you can be back in York before Emigrants 

 arrive. I have requested Mrs. Robinson to assist me in urging you to 

 start, enclosed is a letter on business to her, which have the goodness 

 to have sent to the Chiefs. 



I am sorry to tell you that a large number of the Settlers have 

 cleared out of Adelaide, some gone to the Michigan. 



Yrs very Truly, 

 Thomas Talbot. 

 The Honble 



Peter Robinson 



C. C. L. 



York. 



(From the Crown Lands Department.) 



John Elmsleyi to Talbot. 



Clover Hill May 24 1833. 

 My Dear Sir. 



Accept my sincere thanks for the kind invitation conveyed in your 

 letter of the 19th instant. I did not receive the letter until it was too 

 late to answer by return of Post. I have been all through that beautiful 

 portion of the Province styled the Talbot settlement. But you were at 

 that time in England. I should not otherwise have lost such a favorable 

 opportunity of paying you my respects, and assuring you of the great 

 pleasure I felt in witnessing the effects of your endeavours to settle and 

 improve the wilderness. Whether I may ever again visit that part of 

 the Province is more than I can venture to say; but if I do you may 

 depend upon it I shall not fail to avail myself of your hospitality. 



My object in purchasing lands at all in any part of the Province 

 i^ two fold. 'The one, the investment of money arising from the sale 

 of lands bequeathed to me by my father. The other, the actual and 

 immediate settlement and cultivation of the Land, As soon as I can 

 meet with settlers willing to accept of my terms which will be very fav- 

 orable. With respect to the desire you express that the Highland Scotch 

 should be excluded, if that exception be essential to secure me in my 

 purchase why I must needs assent. You cannot be more favorable than 

 I am to an English population, and it shall be my care to have none 

 others, as far as I can avoid it at the same time I am free to confess 



1 Afterwards member of the Executive Council, eldest son of Chief 

 Justice Elmsley. 



