Excerpt from Letters From Victorian Pioneers: Being a Series of Papers on the Early Occupation of the Colony, the Aborigines, Etc ON the 29th July 1853 His Excellency lieutenant-governor La Trobe addressed a circular letter to a number of early settlers, nearly all of whom have now passed away, request ing information as to the time and circumstances of the first occupation of various parts of the colony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.