Excerpt from John Batman, the Founder of VictoriaIt is now twenty-one years since the first edition of my Australian Geography appeared, and I hope before long to bring out, for the Australian Youth, my story of the Last of the Tasmanians, upon which I I have been occupied many years. To my fellow colonists I am grateful for encouragement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.