Excerpt from The Geography of Victoria: Historical, Physical, and PoliticalAS it is little more than three years since I first landed in Victoria, the main need of this preface is to apologize for my presumption in writing a book on its geography, to confess ignorance, and express gratitude to the many friends, without whose help this book would be even more incomplete than it is. The short time available for my study of the geographical structure of Victoria has been reduced by a fatality, that has prevented my devoting to field work in this State, any one of the three periods of double drill and no canteen, technically called long vacations. However, I have been able to visit most parts of the State, and to examine personally all the localities on which stress is herein laid. The book is an expansion of a course of University Extension Lectures given last year, during which I felt the need of some book treating the geography of Victoria in relation to the development of its topography. A new comer has some advantage in undertaking such a work, for he most feels the need of a general plan of the State, and of an explanation of the relations between the different geographical divisions.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.