Physical description

"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.

Inscriptions & markings

maps, b&w illustrations, b&w photographs