APPENDIX I. 



OWING to the circumstances surrounding its settlement, the original sale 

 of allotments in the City of Melbourne has an attractive interest for 

 Victorian colonists. Lists of the purchasers from the Crown have been 

 preserved in the local archives, and have acquired an importance somewhat 

 akin to that with which the passenger roll of the Mayflower is regarded in 

 Massachusetts. 



To avoid encumbering the text of Chapter IX. with excess of detail, 

 the results of the two sales in 1837 are here recorded, together with the 

 names and domicile of the purchasers. 



The accompanying plan does not take in the whole city, but only the 

 central area, covering all the allotments offered. Each block contains an 

 area of ten acres, subdivided into twenty allotments. A right of way thirty- 

 three feet wide, running from east to west through each block, reduced 

 the size of the allotments slightly below the half -acre. These rights of 

 ways, originally intended as a means of access to the rear of the premises 

 facing the main street, have by pressure of population become important 

 thoroughfares. That known as Little Flinders Street has now some of 

 the finest warehouses in Melbourne on its frontage. It will be seen from 

 the plan that the four corner lots of each block were nearly rectangular 

 and extended only half the depth ; the others with sixty-six feet frontage 

 were carried the full depth to the narrow street in the rear. 



The numbers of the allotments commenced on each block at the south- 

 west corner proceeding eastward, then returning westward along the 

 northern frontage. 



The blocks sold on the 1st of June, 1837, are tinted red those in 

 November blue. 



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