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In the thinly peopled hilly district east of Melbourne the most important 

 centres of population are Sale in the agricultural coast region of Gipp's Land, and 

 Beechworth in the heart of a rich auriferous country near the sources of the 

 Murray. Beyond Melbourne immigrants have been attracted in the largest num- 



Fig. 180. — Melbouene and Hobson's Bay. 

 Scale 1 : 850,000. 



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hasL orbreenwich 



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Feet. 



32 to 80 

 Feet. 



Depths. 



80 to 160 

 Feet. 



160 Feet and 

 upwards. 



18 Miles. 



bers to the region which occupies both slopes of the waterparting for a space of 

 from 60 to 100 miles to the north-west of the capital. Here were discovered 

 the first gold-fields in 1851, and here is situated Ballarat {Ballaarat), the second 

 city in Victoria, standing on ground every clod of which has been washed for the 



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