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Shire of Melton Heritage Study:Environmental HistoryDavid MoloneyM ay 2007Shire of Melton Heritage Study Stage Two. 2006: Environmental History.Conten Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_picsntsChapter One: Exploration .............................................2Chapter Two: The Aboriginal People....................................9Chapter Three: Pastoralism...........................................18Chapter Four: Farming ...............................................30Chapter Five: Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_pics Community .............................................51Chapter Six: Transport ..............................................74Chapter Seven: OtherVolume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_pics
Industries......................................88Chapter Eight: Horses, Hounds, and Hares.............................96Chapter Nine: Water and Fire.Shire of Melton Heritage Study:Environmental HistoryDavid MoloneyM ay 2007Shire of Melton Heritage Study Stage Two. 2006: Environmental History.Conten Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_pics...............................1301https://khothuvien.cori!Shine of Melton Heritage Study Stage Two. 2Ơ06' Environmental History.Chapter One: ExplorationThe volcanic Keilor and Werribee plains figured prominently in two of the most critical early explorations of Port Phillip. In 1803 Grimes' party, Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_picsafter a venture up the Maribymong River, reported poorly on the agricultural potential of the district and recommended that Port Phillip was unsuitablVolume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_pics
e for a new settlement. No further exploration occurred until the Hume and Hovell journey of 1824. Their reports of this same land's potential for graShire of Melton Heritage Study:Environmental HistoryDavid MoloneyM ay 2007Shire of Melton Heritage Study Stage Two. 2006: Environmental History.Conten Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_picssion were running out. John Batman’s 1835 tour of the area launched a fleet of small craft, brimful of sheep, onto Bass Strait. Harbours at Melbourne. Williamstown and Geelong were founded as the squatters rushed to claim their share of the open volcanic plains to the west and north of Port Phillip Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_picsBay. In their wake came surveyors, and even the Governor.The main legacy of the exploring period in the Shire of Melton are the names of some of its mVolume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_pics
ost prominent topographical features, such as Mount Cottrell and Mount Aitken, and. less directly, names such as Exford1 2 * and Holden Road.The recorShire of Melton Heritage Study:Environmental HistoryDavid MoloneyM ay 2007Shire of Melton Heritage Study Stage Two. 2006: Environmental History.Conten Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_picsEuropeans, and the reason for Port Phillip’s settlement.The European occupation was of course an historical watershed, leading to the establishment of the city of Melbourne, the surrender of study area by Its indigenous inhabitants, and the radical transformation of the landscape. The earl}' tours o Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_picsf exploration constitute an important, although very scant, record of the ‘pristine’ landscape and its inhabitants in the preEuropean era. Remnants ofVolume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_pics
such landscapes - fragments of woodlands, grassland expanses, or views remarked upon by the explorers - might today be valued as part of our 'EuropeaShire of Melton Heritage Study:Environmental HistoryDavid MoloneyM ay 2007Shire of Melton Heritage Study Stage Two. 2006: Environmental History.Conten Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_pics he named Station Peak), became probably first non-Aboriginal person to obtain a view towards the Melton area. He described a ‘low plain’ covered with:-‘low plain where the water appeared frequently to lodge: it was covered with small-blade grass but almost destitute of wood, and the soil was clayey Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_pics and shallow ... Towards the interior there was a mountain [Mount Macedon J ... and so far the country was low. grassy, and very slightly covered withVolume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_pics
wood ...’?Charles GrimesEarly descriptions of the plains area west of the Maribyrnong River were instrumental in a long delay in Port Phillip’s settlShire of Melton Heritage Study:Environmental HistoryDavid MoloneyM ay 2007Shire of Melton Heritage Study Stage Two. 2006: Environmental History.Conten Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_pics for settlement. They rowed up the Maribyrnong as far the rock barrier at Avondale Heights. James Flemming recorded his impressions upon climbing the west embankment of the river:-1The Wenibee River was originally known as the River Exe. This was almost certainly named after an English river in the Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_picsvery early stages of Port Phillip settlement. Later. Simon Staughton. whose English home had been near this same river, named his station on the riverVolume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_pics
Exford.2Cited in John Lack & olwen Ford. ‘Melbourne’s Western Region: An Introduơory History’(Melbourne's Living Museum of the West. Melbourne WesterShire of Melton Heritage Study:Environmental HistoryDavid MoloneyM ay 2007Shire of Melton Heritage Study Stage Two. 2006: Environmental History.Conten Volume_2_-_Environmental_History_Adopted_May2007_-_no_picsevel at top and full of stones, the land very bad. and very few trees, and appeared so to the mountains.’3Shire of Melton Heritage Study:Environmental HistoryDavid MoloneyM ay 2007Shire of Melton Heritage Study Stage Two. 2006: Environmental History.ContenGọi ngay
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