. The Land of the Lyre bird; a story of early settlement in the great forest of south Gippsland. Being a description of the Big Scrub in its virgin state with its birds and animals, and of the adventures and hardship of its early explorers and prospectors; also accounts by the settlers of the clearing, settlement, and development of the country . understood that it wasvery large, and that with the number of hands employed on the mills, andthe splitters in the bush, the township presented a lively appearance. The village settlements were established in LS98-4. The following i> an extract Ilo
. The Land of the Lyre bird; a story of early settlement in the great forest of south Gippsland. Being a description of the Big Scrub in its virgin state with its birds and animals, and of the adventures and hardship of its early explorers and prospectors; also accounts by the settlers of the clearing, settlement, and development of the country . understood that it wasvery large, and that with the number of hands employed on the mills, andthe splitters in the bush, the township presented a lively appearance. The village settlements were established in LS98-4. The following i> an extract Iloin a ^toic bill of Noveuilier. 1S,S9:— One bag of Hour (200 lbs.) .. :l II 0 TO lbs. sugar, ^^d. per lb. 1 1 H One case kerosene I o u 10 lbs. tea at Is. 8(1. per lb OK. ,s .\ pack-lioisc load cliaigccl ;il Recollections and Experiences. MR. E. SHEEPWAY. The second week in July, thirty years ago thisWinter, my old and esteemed friend, Mr. JosephWhite. and myself came by coach from Dan-denong to Grantvilie to peg out land in what isnow called the Krowera district, and found every-thing very rough and expensive. We were sup-posed to stick our pegs in the four corners of thelilocks we Avere applying for, but they were not sur-veyed, and the scrub was impenetrable, so we stucktliem all in at Mr. Walkers place, about a mileabove the Bass bridge, vrhere there was (juite acollection of pegs, sticking all in a group. Whenwe crossed the Bass River our guide said. Xowwe are in the land floAving with milk and could not see an}^ about then, but the milk hasflowed there jivetty considerable since. We came l)ack in the folloA\ ing Xovember toget some scrub cut. We started with four menfrom (xrantville. and camped at a settlers about half way. and slept on his verandah, and had fried w
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