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From: Jon Patrick <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-VIC-West] Re: HARPFIELDS, ROSE and WANDO VALE
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 05:46:47 +1000
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90 miles is an exceptional distance to cover in one day on horseback. You
are better off to use a more conservative estimate of half that.
jon
Quoting Beryl O'Gorman <>:

> Well Alex Turnbull used to ride from Rocklands (Balmoral) into Casterton
> for
> meetings and home again. And from Wm Moodie's diary (He was on Wando
> Dale).
> He took his mother to Wonwondah, 12 miles short of Horsham. This trip
> took
> part of a day and the next due to bad weather, but when he went to bring
> her
> home he writes:
> "We left Wonwondah at twelve noon aiming to arrive at Spring Vale that
> night, and we did the journey of forty-five miles in just over twelve
> hours." This on horseback. And again:
> "I turned old Sam's head for home and rode him ninety miles back in the
> one
> day."
> Gives us some idea.
> Cheers
> Beryl
>
> Beryl O'Gorman
> Greensborough Victoria Australia
> List Admin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daryl Povey" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 6:45 AM
> Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] Re: HARPFIELDS, ROSE and WANDO VALE
>
>
> > Hi folk
> >
> > I have added this story to the Wando Vale web site at...
> > http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/wando/
> > The main problem with locating the farm known as "HARPFIELDS" is that
> it
> > was more than a one day horseback ride from Wando Vale. That would
> make it
> > a considerable distance away in any direction ???
> >
> > Any estimates for how far a 1 day horseback ride would have been?
>
>
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--
Jon Patrick
Sybase Chair of Information Systems
School of Information Technologies
University of Sydney
Sydney, 2006

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