Victoria: With a Description of Its Principal Cities, Melbourne and Geelong: and Remarks on the Present State of the Colony; Including an Account of the Ballaarat Disturbances, and of the Death of Captain Wise, 40th Regiment

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Smith, Elder, & Company, 1856 - History - 219 pages
Victoria: With a Description of Its Principal Cities, Melbourne and Geelong: And Remarks On the Present State of the Colony; Including an Account of the Death of Captain Wise, 40Th Regiment.
 

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