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