Journal entry – John Grey – 18 Mar 1835

Wednesday 18th March



Sold Mr Walton for Mr Beaumont’s Mines a Lot of Wood on the Banks of the Allen for £215, which is £4 below the valuation, but it is a fair price, the Ground being very steep & the Wood difficult to remove - also a small Lot of Scots Firs in Dipton Wood for £45… being together £260 - for which he gives a Pro:[missory] Note payable in January next. The Wood to be cut & cleared away in March 1836.  Rode through the different sets of Men planting & mending the Embankment.  The latter being now [struck out: ‘I think’] secured against any immediate danger I think it better to desist for the present, and to watch an opportunity of completing the Work & strengthening any weak points that may appear, when the River shall be lower & the weather more settled than we have had it during the present troublesome operation.