what was melbourne like pre colonialisation
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| 1800s to 1830s |
| 1802-3 -a gardener named Flemming, with Charles Grimes exploring the Yarra in 1802–03, notes: ‘The most eligible place for a settlement that I have seen is on the fresh water river’ SOURCE p7 Context Pty Ltd 2012, Thematic History: A History of the City of Melbourne’s Urban Environment, prepared for the City of Melbourne. their source Quoted in Tony Dingle and Andrew Brown-May, ‘Yarra River’, in Brown-May and Swain,, 2005, p. 788. |
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