This book was prepared by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Mebourne Soft covered report of 83 pages, including 10 folded leaves of plates , and 11 maps (some coloured). maldon, geology, flora, vermin, parkin's reef, derby hill, beehive reef, long gully, union hill, mount tarrengower, eaglehawk gully, porcupine flat, neggetty range, peg leg gully, sandy creek, smiths creek, landscape

"This enquiry into the boundaries of the Mount Franklin Aboriginal Reserve had its origins in the preparation of a biography of geologist Thomas Smith of Sandon, which raised queries about Boundary Gully Road, Parkers Gully and the location in that vicinity of the Reserve boundary. At a subsequent meeting of the Daylesford Historical Society, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Aboriginal Reserve at Franklinford in 1841, it became clear that the actual boundaries were only poorly known ... A search for information srouces in Melbourne and Sydney did not produce an overall Plan, but it is hoped that the material obtained will present a sufficiently accurate picture to be useful to other local historians and be of some interest also to the general reader" --Preface. Contents: The boundaries of the Mt. Franklin Aboriginal Reserve The five mile radius The Tarrengower challenge Provisional boundaries Survey of the Reserve Breakup of the Reserve References Appendices.maps, b&w illustrations, b&w photographsmount franklin