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exchange was for £18.10 and not £18.17.6 as appears in your account. Taking then the other items as you enumerate them I strike the balance thus. 

[Table of monies paid; amounts in £ s d; see image for details.]

[Right-hand column:]
£ s d
1850. Paid to governt: 35 17 0
1852. Do. 30 0 0
Do. 2 0 0
1853 [Quit?] Rent. Red: 16 6 8
[Total:] 84 3 8

[Left-hand column:]
£ s d
1850 . Rent . 25 0 0         
1851 . Do . 25 0 0       
1852 Do . 25 0 0                 
1853 . Do . 25 0 0         
1854 . Do . 25 0 0                 
½ Yrs Do . 12 10 0 
[Total:] 127 10 0
[Total from Right-hand column:] 84 3 8
[Difference:] 53.6.4 
[Divide by :] 26.13.2  = My share of profit per bill of exchange                                            
18 10 0  
[Difference:] 8 3 2 = Balance due to me.

Thus much for business. As for domestic matters I am happy to say we are all well here. My wife and eldest little girl have been staying with some friends in France, whence I have recently returned with the         

rear guard of the expedition. We now muster six in family having added to our original numbers two little boys Thomas & Francis and two little girls Isabelle and Adelaide. I suppose you keep the primitive commandment as well as we.
Probably you have at length terminated your migratory state of existence as described in your last letter: and I hope you are comfortably settled at Berrima. This great Babel and your quiet fields are so dissimilar however that you and I can scarcely appreciate each others labours or difficulties.
Altho' we are all apt to be discontented with our own lot, yet after a few years of life we probably should be ill adapted to any other. Pray give Mrs Grose's best love to her sister and do not forget to remember me also kindly. I will not inflict on you any more prose but subscribe myself, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully Thos. Grose.

Rev. Jas. Hassall.