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Government House, Melbourne. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Victoria. 



Tort Phillip— Early Settlement and Abandonment— The Pioneers Henty, Batman and Fawkner— 

 Size of Victoria — Melbourne— Its Appearance — Public Buildings— Streets— Reserves— Pride of 

 its People — Unearned Increment — Sandhurst — Ballarat — The Capital of the Interior — 

 Geelong — The Western District — View of the Lakes — Portland — The Wheat Plains — 

 Shepperton — The Mallee— Gippsland — Mountain Ranges— School System — Cobb's Coaches— Facts 

 and Figures. 



IT is strange that Victoria should be one of the youngest of the colonies, 

 for Port Phillip was amongst the places first noticed by the early settlers 

 of the continent. Lieutenant Grant, commanding the little brig Lady Nelson, 

 observed the inlet in the year 1800, when en rotUe for Sydney. In 1802 



