. 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 . from which it had bai-ely recovered, when the discovery of golddiverted all attention in an cutir-ely new direction. During these and the succeeding years Westernjiort seems to have hada quiet, uneventful existence, cattle grazing being the jirincipal
. 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 . from which it had bai-ely recovered, when the discovery of golddiverted all attention in an cutir-ely new direction. During these and the succeeding years Westernjiort seems to have hada quiet, uneventful existence, cattle grazing being the jirincipal indusitry, anda few small settlements were formed round its shores. In 1873 an attempt was made to develop the coal .seams at Kilcunda, anda railway line was made to (irilliths Point, where a jetty was made for of loading coal into , but the ventui-e was not a success, and was soon al)aiulon((l. ; liiings u.■^ lo the lime when ihe story of the i)ioneers of the .scrul)country really starts; the rich scrub country in the ranges was entered Track, and from the (ji]) railway line on the north, andfrom Tjang Lang and Grantville on the west, gi-adually extending, until thosein the advance f)f each wave of settUment met. witji surprise, those who hadcome in from an entirelv ditlerent Old Pastoral Runs. T. J. COVERDALE. The map here j^iveii. wliich i^s taken from the orio-iual plans, shows thepastoral run?? into which the scrub country dealt with in the book wasnominally divided before it was taken np by the settlers who cleared it. Italso shows some of the old runs round ANesternport and on the south names of the lessees and the dates of the leases are taken fiom theGoAernment Gazettes of the time, which, together with the ])lans, were verykindly placed at my disposal by Mr. J. G. Saxton. of the Oritrinal Plan Room,Lands Office, Melbourne. The scrub country referred to C(;nipriscd. the uorthcni half oft
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