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This article 'examine(s) three elements that were posited by Melbourne's early surveyors and incompatible with the development of a city invested in post-Enlightenment commitments to the rational and orderly division of space: the indigenous population, the extant landscape and the poor.' Ferguson draws on a range of texts, from the writings of colonial surveyor Thomas Mitchell to autobiographies and memoirs of early residents of Melbourne to demonstrate 'the irrationality - the almost mythical foundations - of the city' (par. 2).
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http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/294/99
Imagining Early Melbourne
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- The Australian Emigrant : A Rambling Story, Containing as much Fact as Fiction 1854 single work novel
- Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria 1888 single work autobiography
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1836-1839
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