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Bellings proposed inland settlement on the other side of the Aileach Mountains, with the express intent of trying to push the remaining tribes of the Tyrohsa out of the Northern foothills of the Aileach Mountains. A series of caravans would be sent overland through mountain passes as Arcer citizens moved to establish new homesteads and towns on the other side of the traditional geographic buffer between Occidentals and Indigneous peoples. By 1815, most of the Aileach Basin was settled and large farms had begun to send their grain and other produce via new roads back to Chester-on-Moore, Kurst, and Kinnaird for consumption and export to the Old World. To the Northwest, Norham Governorate's expansion had continued at a rapid pace, with towns being established all the way to the border with the Tel-kon'e tribesmen across the Innis River, notably with the establishment of Dunborough in 1825. With Norham having a rising population, the Ardmori Crown had issued a decree granting it the status of another Governorate. This now required additional levels of supervision as the growing Arcer colony had two provinces so quickly. Bellings appointed two Lieutenant-Governors, Charles Sutton, a former Royal Engineer, as the first Lieutenant-Governor of Moorden in 1811, and the same year for Norham he appointed Lieutenant-Governor Henry T. Dixon, a large landowner, for Norham Governorate. Sutton took up residence in Kurst, sharing the Crown-Governor's residence, while Dixon moved his family from Maltby to Craigfearn, the largest town in Norham with several thousand colonists.  

The Ardmori Crown sponsored another expedition further into the Malentine, finding the Southern of Foxhey's two islands. This was followed with the reaction of the "Gibson Settlement" in 1822, which was eventually renamed Port Gibson, and with the town reaching a population of 2,500 less than two years later, it had ratified the early Arco constitutional documents, the Crown recognizing it as a Governorate in 1824. Bellings was quick to appoint Frederick Gibson as the Governorate's first Lieutenant-Governor. Port Gibson would become a major fishing, whaling, and shipbuilding town, and one of Arcerion's most important Western ports. By the mid-1820s, Dunborough had established into a large frontier town. A permanent garrison of several hundred regular and Arcer soldiers, as well as thousands of farmers, settlers, and traders had created a trading town that was a junction between Indigenous and Occidental. This was similar to Dalfearn, which was at the foremost border of the inland Arco territory. Dalfearn itself was still growing and being industrialized, and with only a small dirt road that was easily washed out, was removed from most Arco garrisons and assistance from the Ardmori Crown.