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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY TOWARDS AND IN AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER II DISCOVERIES OF THE DUTCH
- CHAPTER III DISCOVERIES OF DAMPIER
- CHAPTER IV DISCOVERIES OF CAPTAIN COOK IN AUSTRALIA, VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, AND NEW ZEALAND, FROM 1768 TO 1770
- CHAPTER V VISITS OF CAPTAINS DE SURVILLE, ST. ALOUARN, AND MARION DU FRESNE TO AUSTRALIA, VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, AND NEW ZEALAND IN 1769 AND 1772
- CHAPTER VI THE VOYAGE OF COOK AND FURNEAUX, JANUARY, 1772 TO 1774, IN WHICH COOK REPEATEDLY VISITED NEW ZEALAND, AND CAPTAIN FURNEAUX VISITED NEW ZEALAND AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
- CHAPTER VII LA PEROUSE, AND THE VOYAGES IN QUEST OF HIM
- CHAPTER VIII DISCOVERIES ON THE COASTS OF AUSTRALIA AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND BETWIXT 1788 AND 1795, OR BETWIXT THE PERIODS OF COOK AND FLINDERS
- CHAPTER IX THE FOUNDING OF SYDNEY, AND THE CONSEQUENT DISCOVERIES OF BASS'S STRAITS, ETC., BY BASS AND FLINDERS
- CHAPTER X THE SURVEY OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN AND NORTHERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA BY CAPTAIN FLINDERS
- CHAPTER XI IMPULSE OF DISCOVERY GIVEN BY THE SETTLEMENT OF SYDNEY
- CHAPTER XII THE SETTLEMENT OF TASMANIA AND SUBSEQUENT DISCOVERIES
- CHAPTER XIII COMMENCEMENT OF PROGRESS INTO THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES.—EVANS'S EXPEDITION.—OXLEY'S TWO EXPEDITIONS
- CHAPTER XIV DISCOVERIES OF THE MURRUMBIDGEE RIVER; OF THE PORT PHILLIP DISTRICT, BY HUME AND HOVELL; OF THE PANDORA PASS AND LIVERPOOL PLAINS; AND OF THE BRISBANE RIVER
- CHAPTER XV THE TWO EXPEDITIONS OF CAPTAIN CHARLES STURT INTO THE INTERIOR OF AUSTRALIA, FOR TRACING THE COURSES OF THE MACQUARIE AND MURRUMBIDGEE, AND ENDING IN THE DISCOVERY OF THE DARLING AND THE MURRAY IN THE YEARS 1828, 1829, 1830, AND 1831
- CHAPTER XVI SURVEYS OF THE AUSTRALIAN COASTS BY CAPTAINS KING, STOKES, FITZROY, ETC.
- CHAPTER XVII THE THREE EXPEDITIONS OF MAJOR, AFTERWARDS SIR THOMAS, MITCHELL FOR THE DISCOVERY OF THE RIVER KINDUR, IN EASTERN AUSTRALIA; FOR ASCERTAINING THE JUNCTION OF THE DARLING WITH THE MURRAY, AND FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP, NOW VICTORIA
- CHAPTER XVIII THE SECOND EXPEDITION OF MAJOR MITCHELL, BEING TO THE DARLING, IN 1835
- CHAPTER XIX THE THIRD EXPEDITION OF MAJOR MITCHELL TO THE DARLING AND MURRAY, AND ACROSS AUSTRALIA FELIX, NOW VICTORIA, IN 1836
- CHAPTER XX SETTLEMENT OF PORT PHILLIP BY BATMAN AND HIS ASSOCIATES
- CHAPTER XXI VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN WICKHAM, FITZROY, AND STOKES, IN THE BEAGLE, ROUND THE AUSTRALIAN COASTS, FROM 1837 TO 1843
- CHAPTER XXII DISCOVERIES IN NORTH-WEST AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA BETWEEN THE YEARS 1837 AND 1840, BY LIEUTENANTS GREY AND LUSHINGTON
- CHAPTER XXIII SECOND EXPEDITION OF CAPTAIN GREY, NAMELY TO SHARK'S BAY; DISCOVERY OF THE RIVER GASCOYNE
- CHAPTER XXIV THE EXPEDITIONS OF MR. EYRE INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, AND OVERLAND FROM ADELAIDE TO KING GEORGE'S SOUND, IN THE YEARS 1840-1
- CHAPTER XXV OVERLAND JOURNEY TO KING GEORGE'S SOUND
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CHAPTER XX - SETTLEMENT OF PORT PHILLIP BY BATMAN AND HIS ASSOCIATES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY TOWARDS AND IN AUSTRALIA
- CHAPTER II DISCOVERIES OF THE DUTCH
- CHAPTER III DISCOVERIES OF DAMPIER
- CHAPTER IV DISCOVERIES OF CAPTAIN COOK IN AUSTRALIA, VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, AND NEW ZEALAND, FROM 1768 TO 1770
- CHAPTER V VISITS OF CAPTAINS DE SURVILLE, ST. ALOUARN, AND MARION DU FRESNE TO AUSTRALIA, VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, AND NEW ZEALAND IN 1769 AND 1772
- CHAPTER VI THE VOYAGE OF COOK AND FURNEAUX, JANUARY, 1772 TO 1774, IN WHICH COOK REPEATEDLY VISITED NEW ZEALAND, AND CAPTAIN FURNEAUX VISITED NEW ZEALAND AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND
- CHAPTER VII LA PEROUSE, AND THE VOYAGES IN QUEST OF HIM
- CHAPTER VIII DISCOVERIES ON THE COASTS OF AUSTRALIA AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND BETWIXT 1788 AND 1795, OR BETWIXT THE PERIODS OF COOK AND FLINDERS
- CHAPTER IX THE FOUNDING OF SYDNEY, AND THE CONSEQUENT DISCOVERIES OF BASS'S STRAITS, ETC., BY BASS AND FLINDERS
- CHAPTER X THE SURVEY OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN AND NORTHERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA BY CAPTAIN FLINDERS
- CHAPTER XI IMPULSE OF DISCOVERY GIVEN BY THE SETTLEMENT OF SYDNEY
- CHAPTER XII THE SETTLEMENT OF TASMANIA AND SUBSEQUENT DISCOVERIES
- CHAPTER XIII COMMENCEMENT OF PROGRESS INTO THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES.—EVANS'S EXPEDITION.—OXLEY'S TWO EXPEDITIONS
- CHAPTER XIV DISCOVERIES OF THE MURRUMBIDGEE RIVER; OF THE PORT PHILLIP DISTRICT, BY HUME AND HOVELL; OF THE PANDORA PASS AND LIVERPOOL PLAINS; AND OF THE BRISBANE RIVER
- CHAPTER XV THE TWO EXPEDITIONS OF CAPTAIN CHARLES STURT INTO THE INTERIOR OF AUSTRALIA, FOR TRACING THE COURSES OF THE MACQUARIE AND MURRUMBIDGEE, AND ENDING IN THE DISCOVERY OF THE DARLING AND THE MURRAY IN THE YEARS 1828, 1829, 1830, AND 1831
- CHAPTER XVI SURVEYS OF THE AUSTRALIAN COASTS BY CAPTAINS KING, STOKES, FITZROY, ETC.
- CHAPTER XVII THE THREE EXPEDITIONS OF MAJOR, AFTERWARDS SIR THOMAS, MITCHELL FOR THE DISCOVERY OF THE RIVER KINDUR, IN EASTERN AUSTRALIA; FOR ASCERTAINING THE JUNCTION OF THE DARLING WITH THE MURRAY, AND FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP, NOW VICTORIA
- CHAPTER XVIII THE SECOND EXPEDITION OF MAJOR MITCHELL, BEING TO THE DARLING, IN 1835
- CHAPTER XIX THE THIRD EXPEDITION OF MAJOR MITCHELL TO THE DARLING AND MURRAY, AND ACROSS AUSTRALIA FELIX, NOW VICTORIA, IN 1836
- CHAPTER XX SETTLEMENT OF PORT PHILLIP BY BATMAN AND HIS ASSOCIATES
- CHAPTER XXI VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN WICKHAM, FITZROY, AND STOKES, IN THE BEAGLE, ROUND THE AUSTRALIAN COASTS, FROM 1837 TO 1843
- CHAPTER XXII DISCOVERIES IN NORTH-WEST AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA BETWEEN THE YEARS 1837 AND 1840, BY LIEUTENANTS GREY AND LUSHINGTON
- CHAPTER XXIII SECOND EXPEDITION OF CAPTAIN GREY, NAMELY TO SHARK'S BAY; DISCOVERY OF THE RIVER GASCOYNE
- CHAPTER XXIV THE EXPEDITIONS OF MR. EYRE INTO CENTRAL AUSTRALIA, AND OVERLAND FROM ADELAIDE TO KING GEORGE'S SOUND, IN THE YEARS 1840-1
- CHAPTER XXV OVERLAND JOURNEY TO KING GEORGE'S SOUND
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Summary
We have now arrived at the period when it is necessary to record the settlement of Victoria, originally named Port Phillip from Governor Phillip, and afterwards Australia Felix by Sir Thomas Mitchell. We have already seen in Sir Thomas's expedition across Victoria, that emigrants from Van Diemen's Land were finding their way into it. Though that island was only settled in 1804, yet in 1838 its flocks were become too numerous for its pasturage. A sudden and determined effort was now, therefore, made to carry over the flocks and herds of Tasmania, to this fertile portion of the continent, and to found new and ample pastures there; but it is rather curious that this was done under the plea of kindness to the natives.
John Batman, who writes himself of Ben Lomond, Van Diemen's Land, informed Colonel Arthur, the governor of that island, in a letter dated May 25th, 1838, that at the expense, and in conjunction with several gentlemen, inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land, he, a native of New South Wales, but for the last six years actively engaged in endeavouring to civilize the natives of Van Diemen's Land, had formed a project for civilizing the natives of Port Phillip. That to facilitate this object, he had procured eleven natives of New South Wales, who had acted under his guidance. These, no doubt, are the natives to whom Mr. Robinson alludes in his account of his transactions with the Van Diemen's Land blacks, and whom he had refused to have anything to do with, because they knew nothing of the language of the Tasmanian natives.
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- The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New ZealandFrom the Earliest Date to the Present Day, pp. 311 - 331Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011