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Excerpt from Handbook to Victoria (Australia): A Short Description of the Colony, Its Productions, Manufactures and Capabilities, Especially With Regard to Its New Agricultural Industries and Settlement on the Land Of Port Phillip, and finding a river running into the Bay, which the natives called yarra-yarra (meaning flowing sailed up it a little beyond the place on which the metropolis (melbourne) now stands; but it was not until January, 1877, that his original map was found in the survey office at Sydney, and that the credit of being the father of the colony was accorded to him over the claims of Batman and Fawkner to that honour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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