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Excerpt: "Standing in the gathering winterly twilight, at the intersection of Elizabeth and Flinders Streets, one instinctively remarks the long crowded suburban trains, laden with homeward-bound passengers, quitting the city and care for the night's charmed interval. All the streets of busy Melbourne are yet thronged, in spite of the apparently rapid diminution which is proceeding. The indefinable hum, noticeable in large urban populations at the close of the day, as the lamps are lit, which mark for most men the boundary between work and recreation, is increasingly audible. The grand outlines of the larger public buildings become suggestively indistinct. If your ear be good, you may hear the steam-whistle and the roar of the country trains at Spencer Street Station. The senses of the musing spectator are filled to saturation with the sights and sounds proper to the largest, the most highly civilised, the most prosperous city in the world, for the years of its existence. Stranger than fiction[Pg 2] does it not seem, that in the month of April, in the year of grace 1840, we should have migrated en famille from Sydney to assist in the colonisation of Port Phillip, in the founding of this city of Melbourne? The moderate-sized schooner which carried us safely hither in a few hours under a week had been chartered by Paterfamilias, so that we were unrestricted as to many matters not usually left to the discretion of passengers. It was a floating home. Colonists of ten years' standing, we had many things to bear with us, which under other circumstances of transit must have been left behind. There were carriage horses and cows, the boys' ponies, the children's canaries, poultry, and pigeons, dogs and cats, babies and nurses, furniture, flower-pots, workmen, house servants—all the component portions of a large household shifted bodily from a suburban home, and ready to be transferred to the first suitable dwelling in the new settlement."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Fantasy
Length7 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 24, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
13CHAPTER XII GRASMERE
2CHAPTER I A.D. 1840
14CHAPTER XIII SUPERIOR FATTENING COUNTRY
3CHAPTER II THE FAR WEST
15CHAPTER XIV BURCHETT OF "THE GUMS"
4CHAPTER III THE DEATH OF VIOLET
16CHAPTER XV WORK AND PLAY
5CHAPTER IV DUNMORE
17CHAPTER XVI THE ROMANCE OF A FREEHOLD
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6CHAPTER V SQUATTLESEA MERE
18CHAPTER XVII LE CHEVALIER BAYARD
7CHAPTER VI THE EUMERALLA WAR
19CHAPTER XVIII THE CHRISTENING OF HEIDELBERG
8CHAPTER VII THE CHILDREN OF THE ROCKS
20CHAPTER XIX THE WOODLANDS STEEPLECHASE
9CHAPTER VIII THE NATIVE POLICE
21CHAPTER XX YERING
10CHAPTER IX KILFERA
22CHAPTER XXI TALES OF A "TRAVELLER"
11CHAPTER X OLD PORT FAIRY
23CHAPTER XXII YAMBUK
12CHAPTER XI PORTLAND BAY
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