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 CHAPTER III.

HERE are two routes to Ballaarat—that one via Geelong, by which you have the advantages of the steamers going and returning each day; and, ere this, a still more expeditious mode by the railway. The second route is across the country, and more direct, and as this is the route the troops marched previous to the disturbances of which we are about to write, we take it from a journal kept on the occasion. Returning, therefore, to the first—well-conducted steamers leave the wharf at 11 and