Author: MURRAY, ROBERT DUNDAS.
Title: A Summer At Port Phillip.
Description: Ex Library; Sm. 8vo; pp. viii, 263; re-backed retaining most of the original back strip, new endpapers, bound in half leather, marbled boards; new endpapers, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, foxing to early and late pages, browning to page edges; ex Sydney Free Public Library New South Wales and has several oval ink stamps stating this. Impressed stamp from library on title page with neat copperplate ink signature over stamp [librarian ? G. C. Anderson]; small section missing from page edge not affecting text, frontispiece missing, otherwise a nice working copy only. Edinburgh, William Tait, MDCCCXLIII (1843). Geelong is 900 inhabitants, interesting river beds have "artificial" dug out holes that retain water during dry seasons, separation of Port Phillip from NSW, nice account of Hovell, Hume, Count Strezlecki, the Yarra has no bridges, Lots of interesting information on daily living including food prices, bushrangers, Aborigines, house rents, stores, credit system, public amusements, Ball, evils of a penal colony, settlers difficulties, quality of soil, squatters, cattle branding, duties on goods, size of allotments, exports, farming, bullocks, and bushrangers, descriptions of coal deposits.

Keywords: Port Phillip Melbourne Victoria vic Robert Dundas Murray local history journal Port Phillip G. C. Anderson aborigines settlers Geelong Aborigines house rents credit system, public amusements, Ball, penal colony soil squatters cattle branding duties export