Excerpt from A History of the Colony of Victoria, Vol. 1 of 2: From Its Discovery to Its Absorption Into the Commonwealth of Australia With most Of the leading politicians Of the last thirty years I have had some intimacy, but in no case have I ever intimated my intention Of committing my views Of their proceedings to paper, nor have I submitted a single page Of my manuscript to any one for an Opinion. Hence I am alone responsible for the deductions which I have sometimes drawn from the facts recorded. Many Of those deductions will, I am sure, be unpopular; some, no doubt, will be hotly contested. 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.