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Jamison Valley (NSW)
Named after Sir John Jamison (1776-1844). The valley referred to by Macquarie is the site of the town of Wentworth Falls. The Governor gave the name of Prince Regent's Glen to the valleys now named Jamison, Megalong and Kanimbla.

'Jarvisfield' (Isle of Mull, Scotland)
Lachlan Macquarie's estate on the Isle of Mull that he had acquired by purchase from his uncle Murdoch Maclaine (18th laird of Lochbuie) in 1803, with additional purchases (later) from the Duke of Argyll. At the time of his return to England in 1822 Lachlan owned 21,128 acres - these included all the key landholdings straddling the narrow isthmus connecting the northern and southern portions of Mull. Macquarie had named his estate 'Jarvisfield' in memory of his first wife, Jane Jarvis, who had died from tuberculosis in 1796 (in China).

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