. 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 . Early Pioneers (H. R. Fowler) 268 Church, School, and Public Hall (J. G. Bennett) 275 A Bit of the Forest (H. R. Fowler) 280 Sapling Country Cleared of Scrub (H. R. Fowler) 293 Ripe for a Forest Fire (H. R. Fowler) 30S Rick Pastoral Country (H. R. Fow
. 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 . Early Pioneers (H. R. Fowler) 268 Church, School, and Public Hall (J. G. Bennett) 275 A Bit of the Forest (H. R. Fowler) 280 Sapling Country Cleared of Scrub (H. R. Fowler) 293 Ripe for a Forest Fire (H. R. Fowler) 30S Rick Pastoral Country (H. R. Fowler) 318-319 Hilly and Heavily Timbered Country Cleared of Scrub (H. R. Fowler) .. 324 Old Track Through Big Tree 334 Illustrating Peril of Homesteads in the Big Fire 356 The Preliminary Scratching of the Surface 365 Ferns (Georgina Matheson) 372 Group of Leongatha Pioneers 379 Gullies where the Rippling Creek (H. R. Fowler) 411 Poowong (H. R. Fowler) 414 Mirboo North (H. R. Fowler) 414 Loch (H. R. Fowler) 415 Korumburra (H. R. Fowler) 416-417 Leongatha (H. R. Fowler) 418-419 Jumbunna (H. R. Fowler) 421 WoNTHAGGi (H. R. Fowler) 422-423 Hui. Country under Cultivation (H. R. Fowler) 424-425 Hill Country used as Dairy Farm (H. R. Fowler) 424-425 Good Dairying Country (H. R. Fowler) 426-427 Hilly Country Well Cleared (H. R. Fowler) 426-427 14. H The Early History of Westernport. MR. A. W. ELMS. As an introduction to the main story of this vokiine. a chapter on thehistory of Westernport should be of interest, both on its own account andas conveying some idea of the surrounding country previous to the solitudeof the inland scrub being invaded by the pioneers, with axe and fire, in theirendeavour to make homes in the forest. Acknowledgment has to be made to the works of Li. G. Turner (Historyof Victoria), Rusden (History of Australia), Labilliere (Early Historyof Aactoria), and (Letters from Victorian Pioneers), collected by GovernorLatrobe, and edited by Thos. F. Bride, , Librar
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