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In the Mountains, Fernshaw. 



PREFACE. 



IN one respect this work differs from its predecessors. The companion 

 volumes were written by travellers to the lands which they described, 

 but Australian Pictures are by an Australian resident. Hence, when praise 

 is required, the author has often preferred to quote some traveller of repute 

 rather than to state his own impressions. Thanks have to be given to the 

 Government of Victoria, which kindly placed all its works at the disposal of 

 the author. The official history of the aborigines compiled by Mr. Brough 

 Smyth is especially a valuable storehouse of facts for future writers. The 



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