# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

**Source image:** `20260219_114443.jpg`  
**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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[Note: This page contains two overlapping texts — a smaller hand on the left side and a larger hand on the right side, both partially obscured.]

**Smaller hand (left side):**

and of the little use
depended on him their own
interest will lead them
to support his.

& one instance of
this - Two farmers from Great [?]
Britain were some years
ago sent over to settle
& introduce a better method
of Agriculture in the
inland parts. Their
Fences made thro the day
were always pulled down
at night. Their Cattle
were abstracted & thieved [?]
they knew not by whom till
their situation was
soon rendered such
that they left the
Country.

**Larger hand (right side, partially obscured by cropping):**

visit the Countr[obscured]
Plan of his for [obscured]
absolutely necessar[obscured]
Popular with th[obscured]
A few acts of Con[obscured]
will effect the p[obscured]
he proposes as for [obscured]
led by affection to[obscured]
admired, on[obscured]
Celt no [?] cordently p[obscured]
The Coun[obscured]
the means or sh[obscured]
it being opened t[obscured]
The fund for th[obscured]
agent.
The prop[obscured]