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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 La, PDF eBook

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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.

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