PLOT c/RDC8-ZQ · version 1 of 1

The writer describes Williams Town at Gellibrand's Point, across from the anchorage, and reports that no fresh water had been found there, so water was brought by boat from Melbourne.

Williams Town is formed opposite the anchorage, on the western side of the mouth of the Yarra, at Gellibrand's Point, and would be a thriving township but for the want of fresh water, of which none has been found, and the only supply at present is brought from Melbourne in boats.Historical passage

About Williamstown

Kind

Reported by source

Who said it

Other

Period

1837

Checked

Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification.

Open questions

None open

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Where it says so

Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc (on archive.org) · View in PLOT — p. 275, lettersfromvicto00publiala, leaf 301, printed page 275

How they know

accounts-core@0.1.0: screen_passage@1, extract_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator lettersfromvicto00publiala, leaf 301, printed page 275

Limitations

A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.

Framework targets

none linked

Editions

october-26th-release

Cite as: PLOT record c/RDC8-ZQ v1, Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc (1837), reported by source

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