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List of Illustrations between pages 130 and 131 1 Emanuel Phillips Fox, (1865-1915), Australian, Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay, 1770,oil on canvas, 1902, 261.6 X 190.5 cm., Gilbee Bequest, 1902. 2 The Endeavour Voyage, detail of chart from Hawkesworth's Voyages.. .for making Discoveries in the SouthernHemisphere, 1773. 3 A New Chart of New Holland, 1787, by J. Andrews , reproduced in Historical Records of New South Wales, 1889. 4 A Map of New South Wales, 1792, by W. Dawes, detail, in Hunter's A Historical Journal. 5 Map of Australia, 1827, from T.J. Maslen's Friend of Australia. 6 Inland Exploration I. 7 Inland Exploration II. 8 Last View of the Plains of Promise, engraving from Stokes's Discoveries in Australia, 1846. 9 Sturt's Farthest, detail of map from Sturt's Narrative of an Expedition into CentralAustralia, 1849. 10 A View on the Darling, engraving, from Mitchell's Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, 1839. between pages 258 and 259 11 River Salvator, engraving, from Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, 1848. 12 River Victoria, map, from Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, 1848. IX List of Illustrations 13 Victoria, Robert Graham, first settler at Hall's Gap, Grampians, Victoria, i88os. 14 Fred Kruger (1831-1888), View on theBass River near Queen's Ferry, Western Port, Victoria, albumen print, c. 1878, 18.5 X 27.1 cm. Presented by Mrs B. M. Curl, 1979. 15 Spencer's Gulf, detail of map, from Flinders's A Voyage to Terra Australis, 1814. 16 Lincolnshire, England, detail of map, from S. Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary, 1842. 17 Melbourne's First Land Sales, map, from H. G. Turner's History of the Colony of Victoria, 1904. 18 Squatters and Selectors in the Mallee, detail of Weeah, Division A, County of Millewa, Victorian Crown Lands and Survey Department, Melbourne , c. 1890. 19 Map of Port Philip (sic), 1839, from a sketch by J. Adamson, reproduced in Narrative of George Russell, 1935. 20 Tree-house, made by J. D. Wells, Childers, Gippsland , 1892, photograph. 21 Frederick McCubbin, 1855-1917, Australian, The Pioneer, 1904, oil on canvas (triptych), 223.5 x 86 cm; 224.7 x 122.5 cm; 223.5 x 85.7 cm. Felton Bequest 1906. 22 Native of Western Australia, engraving, from Grey's Expeditions in Western Australia, 1841. Sources I am indebted to the University of Melbourne Library for plates 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16 and 22. My thanks to Mrs Marie Lever of Hall's Gap for allowing me to reproduce plate 13. For plate 20 I am indebted to Mr J. Tilgner of Drouin. Plates 1, 14 and 21 are reproduced by permission of the National Gallery of Victoria. x ...

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