Chapter IV: Victoria

PORT 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. 35-72

_Illustrations_:

Semi-Civilised Victorian Aborigines 36
Government House, Melbourne 37
Melbourne, 1840 40
A Railway Pier in Melbourne in 1886 41
A Melbourne Suburban House 44
Bird's-eye View of Melbourne showing Public Office 46
Bird's-eye View of Melbourne looking Southwards 47
Bird's-eye View of Central Melbourne 50
Bourke Street, Melbourne, looking East 51
University, Melbourne 52
The Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne 53
The Yarra Yarra, near Melbourne 55
Bird's-eye View of Sandhurst 58
On Lake Wellington 63
A Victorian Lake 65
The Upper Goulbourn, Victoria 66
Waterfall in the Black Spur 68
A Victorian Forest 69
Staging Scenes 71
A Sharp Corner 72