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Tuesday 10th December Proceeded by Mail at seven o’clock to Corbridge & was engaged all the day in the Office with Letters etc which had been received while I was from home & in anticipation of an absence in valuing the farms & treating with the Tenants on the western part of the Estates. A Petition from Robert Burn of Alston is sent herewith, respecting the water course through his fields, which he considers to be injurious to his Cattle. It is here that the water has been covered at the expense of the Hospital through the adjoining fields & not through his, whether through not having urged his complaint, or from an idea that being farther from the mines, it might become more pure and less pernicious in its course, I cannot say. Could he prove actual destruction to his Cattle, by the use of the Water, then of course he could claim damage. As it is, he told me at Alston that they did not die, but did not thrive. The presumpsion [sic] is, on account of the deleterious quality of the water, should the Commissioners see fit to refer the matter to me, I shall examine the situation & circumstances when I next go to Alston & act accordingly.
