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In 1842 Angus McLean migrated with his brother Charles, his sister-in-law and nephew, Allan McLean (q.v.) to Sydney, where Charles was offered the management of Captain MacAlister's sheep-runs in newly discovered Gippsland. Angus and Charles were among the first highland Scots in Gippsland. Angus' sister-in-law was said to be the first white woman to cross the Glengarry River into north Gippsland. By 1848 the brothers had, with Simon Gillies, established Glenaladale station on the Mitchell River, originally estimated at 105,640 acres (42,751 ha). One of Angus' novels Harry Bloomfield, or, The Adventures of an early Australian Squatter, though published in 1888, was, according to the author, written during the 1840s. In his later years, Angus McLean worked in the Melbourne office of his nephew. He is described in Memoirs of a Stockman by Harry Peck as 'a dear old man, white as snow, who had passed many years of his life in the heart of the bush in the early Gippsland days, when he had written several bush novels, some of which were published and popular.'