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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. A Journey--Flemington--Melbourne from the Plain--Sunbury--Gisbourn--Woodend--Carlaruhe--Kyneton--Lancefield--Moranding--Pyalong--Heathcote--Eedcastle--TheGoulbourn--Whroo--Rushworth--Waranga--Moora--Redesdale--Elphinston--Chewton--Castlemaine--The Chinaman and the Pig--Opium Buttons--Spurious Gold. The traveller ia search of signs of settlement under the new Land Act in Victoria must leave Melbourne and get some forty or fifty miles into the country before he meets with the home-making he is in search of. The intending settler himself could not possibly follow a better example. Indeed the best advice that could be given to an immigrant on his arrival in Melbourne would be, to get out of it. There are, of course, special handicraftsmen to whom this would not apply, but nine-tenths of the failures that have occurred in the colony have been caused by the gathering together of the people in the large towns. If, instead of taking the railway for fifty or a hundred miles, the traveller, for the sake of turning into the by-paths and visiting the out-of-the-way villages, takes the road, he will be struck with a great change, should his notions of the way to Mount Alexander be derived from descriptions written before the "fifties " were ended, or indeed after the next decade was no longer in its infancy. Instead of meeting and overtaking troops of teams and travellers, he will have to follow a nearly solitary way. At intervals the long line of Macadam will be broken into, at angles more or less acute, by lanes dull as those of Devon, and not unfrequently, quite us beautiful. Out of these lanes will labour the heavily-laden bullock-waggon or horse-team, making its way from an unseen farm or station to the nearest town or railway station. Eve.ry now and ...
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