We  have  reserved  about  10,000  acres  for  the  township,  so
that  every  man  may  have  a  little  farm  near  the  settlement,
and  only  visit  his  stock-station  when  requisite.  I  have
made  up  my  min3,  if  the  land  is  confirmed,  to  leave  Hobart
Town  and  settle,  for  the  summer  months,  at  Port  Phillip.
Yours  faithfully,

J.  T.  Gellibrand.
P.S. — You  are  at  full  liberty  to  make  any  use  of  mj
letter  that  you  may  think  proper. — J.  T.  G.
batman's  expedition.  317

It  will  thus  be  seen  that^  to  the  enterprising  spirit
of  Messrs.  Batman  and  Gellibrand^  the  public  owes
the  re-discoveiy  and  permanent  settlement  of  the
country,  evidently  included  and  deservedly  named  by
Sir  Thomas  Mitchell,  Aitstralia  Felix,  otherwise  Port
Phillip,  and  now  Victoria.
The  prime  mover  was  Mr.  Gellibrand,  who,  by
profession  a  barrister,  was  possessed  of  eminent  and
varied  talent,  whose  influential,  upright,  and  ever-
active  mind  was  an  infinite  fund  of  treasure  to  a  new
country,  but  whose  early  and  lamentable  loss — as  will
hereafter  be  recounted — was  indeed  a  sorrowful  event
to  the  interests  of  the  newly-founded  colony,  his
special  nurseling.
