Estimated area, twenty-four thousand acres. Estimated grazing capabilities, six hundred and forty cattle, four thousand sheep. Bounded on the north by De Salis and Smith's run of Darbalara, commencing at the junction of a creek with the Tumut River on the lagoon, and from thence to the large lagoon at the foot of the range, and from thence by a range running east and west to the Oak Creek ; bounded on the east by that creek ; on the south by a dividing range to the cut road on the Tumut River, dividing It from Keighran's run; and on the west by the Tumut River for six miles from the cut road above referred to, the starting point on the lagoon. - (Ref- The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842-1954) Monday 16 October 1848).

Additional runs and property claimed by this man.

130. Osborne, Henry, Name of run. "Bevokong Mana Arnjoe" or "Old Man Creek".

Estimated area, four hundred and eighty thousand acres.

Estimated grazing capabilities, six hundred and forty cattle, twenty-two thousand sheep. Bounded on the north by the Bullinbong Creek, beginning at a marked line up the Bullinbong from the junction with the Old Man Creek, then by the Old Man Creek from the junction to a marked tree one mile below Jackson's waterhole, being ten miles; on the west by a line south-west thirty-three miles from the marked tree one mile below Jackson's water-hole to a marked tree on the Urana Creek, one mile and one thousand six hundred and ninety-one yards above Chapman and Huon's hut; on the south by a line north, north-east two and a half miles to the road from Chapman's to Moongo, then by that road three and a half miles to the western extremity of the long plain, then by the forest skirting the long plain on its north side, about four miles to where the Moongo road leaves the plain at its eastern extremity, then by a line from that point fifteen and a half east-south.east to Burke's hut on the Urana; on the east by a line thirty.flve degrees east of north twenty-eight miles through the scrub to the east of the Galore mountain to the marked tree on tbe Bullinbong Creek seven miles above its junction with the Old Man Creek.

131. Osborne Henry. Name of run, "Tootool".

Estimated area, thirty thousand seven hundred and twenty acres.

Estimated grazing capabilities, six hundred and forty cattle. Extending along the both sides of the Bullinbong Creek for eight miles in a straight line commencing at Messrs, Robertson and Davidson's southern boundary; bounded on tue north by Mosurs. Robertson and Davidson's due east and west, two mites above the Bullenbong hut, two miles on the west side of the creek and four on the east side; boundod on the Bouth-cast, and west three miles on each side of the creek, and intersecting the creek two miles in a straight line above Tootool hut; bounded on the east by a straight line from tho eastern extremity of the northern boundary eight miles; bounded on the west by a straight line from the western extremity of the southern boundary to the western extremity of the northern bouudary.

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