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occupation. Considerable advances have also been made towards the completion of the ground and Public Roads, effected partly under Report and Estimate J. 11 17/1853 and partly by Convict labour, the planting and grassing being debited and charged to Report and Estimate N157 1845. With the former of these two services delay has also recurred as the greater portion of the trees required necessarily procured out of the Colony; fortunately however by the kindness of the proprietors I obtained a considerable supply by thinning some of their gardens, and these although removed in winter and at an unfavourable time have
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succeeded remarkably well and but few have died in the immediate vicinity of the principal building. I have planted a sufficient quantity of trees and shrubs now in mass but to complete the grassing and planting on the slopes. It was originally intended to have enclosed these grounds with a post and rail fence, but this was abandoned and a rough stone wall has been erected instead affording better protection and of imperishable materials at a cost of £235.4.10. This wall encloses the whole area attached to the home with the exception of a length of 140 feet up slope of the embankments on the west side and where the creation of a wall is