Handbook to Victoria (Australia)

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Of Port Phillip, and finding a river running into the Bay, which the natives called yarra-yarra (meaning flowing sailed up it a little beyond the place on which the metropolis (melbourne) now stands; but it was not until January, 1877, that his original map was found in the survey office at Sydney, and that the credit of being the father of the colony was accorded to him over the claims of Batman and Fawkner to that honour.