I am getting bored with it.

Will you tell me what you know about it for certain ?" "Well," said the Major, "it lies about 250 miles south of this, though we cannot get at it without crossing the mountains, in consequence of some terribly dense scrub on some low ranges close to it, which they call, I believe, the Dandenong.

It appears, however, when you are there, that there is a great harbour, about forty miles long, surrounded with splendid pastures, which stretch west further than any man has been yet.

Take it all in all, I should say it was the best watered, and most available piece of country yet discovered in New Holland." "Any good rivers ?" asked the Dean.
"Plenty of small ones, only one of any size, apparently, which seems to rise somewhere in this direction, and goes in at the head of the bay.
They tried years ago to form a settlement on this bay, but Collins, the man entrusted with it, could find no fresh water, which seems strange, as there is, according to all accounts, a fine full-flowing river running by the town." "They have formed a town there, then ?" said the Dean.
"There are a few wooden houses gone up by the river side.

I believe they are going to make a town there, and call it Melbourne; we may live to see it a thriving place." The Major has lived to see his words fulfilled--fulfilled in such marvellous sort, that bald bare statistics read like the wildest romance.