I would like to thank all my dear friends and my family who encouraged me and helped in preparing this publication. I am truly grateful to Florence Chuk for kind permission to reproduce a map of Victoria from "The Somerset Years", Creswick Historical Museum, especially Heather Lay, the State Library of Victoria, the Mechanics Institute, particularly Robert Bell, and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, for their kind permission to reproduce paintings and illustrations.Thank you to Ted Lynes for proof reading the final manuscript and offering such helpful advice. Without such encouragement and constructive help this project would have been impossible. Thank you one and all!