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- Condition
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- America
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Personalize
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- Inscribed
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- Personalized
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- Signed
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- Type
- textbook
- ISBN
- 9781332016198
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Forgotten Books
ISBN-10
1332016197
ISBN-13
9781332016198
eBay Product ID (ePID)
246181569
Product Key Features
Book Title
History of Ballarat : from the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time (Classic Reprint)
Number of Pages
450 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
General, Yearbooks & Annuals
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Reference, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Excerpt from The History of Ballarat: From the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time This little History, in eight chapters, only touches a few of the more prominent incidents connected with pastoral settlement and the gold discovery in the Ballarat district. The compiler has seen the growth of the town from a mere collection of canvas tents among the trees and on the grassy slopes and flats of the wild bush to its present condition. Less than 20 years ago there was not a house where now stands this wealthy mine and farmgirdled city, whose population is nearly equal to the united populations of Oxford and Cambridge, and exceeding by several thousands the united populations of the cities of Winchester, Canterbury, Salisbury, and Lichfield at the time of the gold discovery. This is one of the truths which are magnificently stranger than fiction. Some of the first workers in this mighty creation are still here. Of the pastoral pioneers there are still with us the Messrs. Learmonth, Pettett, Waldie, Winter, Fisken, Coghill, and Bacchus; and the Rev. Thomas Hastie is still living at the Manse at Buninyong. Down the valley of the Leigh, where the Sebastopol streets and fences run over the eastern escarpment of the table land, may still be seen the sandstone foundations of a station begun by the Messrs. Yuille, whom the coming of the first hosts of gold-hunters scared away from a place no longer fit, in their opinion, for pastoral occupation. Those unfinished walls are in a paddock overlooking a little carse of some four or five acres by the creek side, owned by an Italian farmer, and close to the junction of the Woolshed Creek with the main stream in the valley. On the other side of the larger stream rise basaltic mounds, marked with the pits and banks of the earlier miners. Like the trenches of an old battle-field, these works of the digging armies of the past are now grass-grown and spotted with wild flowers. All around, the open lands of fifteen years ago are turned into streets and fields and gardens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works., Excerpt from The History of Ballarat: From the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time The Last Digger Hunt. -collision between the Diggers and Military and Police. -southern Cross Flag again. - Lalor and his Companions Armed, kneel, and swear Mutual Defence. - Irwin's Account. - Carboni Raffaello. - His Pictures of the Times and the Mam - More Troops Arrive. - The Diggers Extend their Organisation Under Arms. - Lalor Commander ln-chief. - Forage and Impressment Parties. - Original Documents. Shots Fired from the Camp - The Stockade Formed. - Narrative of a Government Oficer in the Camp. - Attack by the Military and Taking of the Stockade. - Various Accounts of the Time. - Rafi'aello's Description. Other Tragic Pictures. - First Stone House. - Bank of Victoria Fortified. - A Soldier's Story. - List of the Killed. - Burials. - Rewards Offered for the Insurgent Leaders. - Their Hiding and Escape - Charge Against A. P. Akehurst. - Proclamation of Martial Law - Feeling in Melbourne Foster's Resignation. - Deputation of Diggers. - Humfi'ray Arrested Vote of Thanks to the Troops. - Legislative Council's Address to the Governor. - His Reply. - Prisoners at the Ballarat Police Court. - Royal Commission of Enquiry -trial and Acquittal of the State Prisoners. Humfiray. -lalor'a and his Captain's Hiding Place and Peculiarities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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