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 CHAPTER I.

S mentioned in the Introductory Chapter, a penal settlement was attempted to be formed within Port Philip Bay in 1803, and that such, after a short time, was abandoned. In 1826 another attempt was made by Captain Wetherall, but after two years this was also abandoned. No permanent settlement was formed within the province until the year 1834, when the Messrs. Henty, of Launceston, Tasmania, formed a whaling station at Portland Bay, to the westward of Port Philip Heads. This was the first regular settlement by white men in Victoria. In 1835 Mr. John Batman arrived in Geelong, which