See also:

• BALLARAT [BALLAARAT]

BALLARAT [BALLAARAT]  and See also:

• BALLARAT [BALLAARAT]

BALLARAT See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

EAST, a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• GRENVILLE (or GRANVILLE), SIR RICHARD (r600-1658)
• GRENVILLE (or GREYNVILE), SIR RICHARD (c. 1541-1591)
• GRENVILLE, GEORGE (1712-1770)
• GRENVILLE, SIR BEVIL (1596-1643)
• GRENVILLE, WILLIAM WYNDHAM GRENVILLE, BARON (1759-1834)

Grenville See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

• VICTORIA
• VICTORIA (or VITTORIA), TOMMASSO LUDOVICO DA (C. I540-C. 1613)
• VICTORIA [ALEXANDRINA VICTORIA]

Victoria, See also:

• AUSTRALIA

Australia, 74 M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail W.N.W. of See also:

• MELBOURNE
• MELBOURNE, WILLIAM LAMB, 2ND VISCOUNT (1779-1848)

Melbourne . The city and Ballarat East, separated only by the Yarrowee See also:

• CREEK
• CREEK (Mid. Eng. crike or creke, common to many N. European languages)

Creek, are distinct municipalities . Pop. of Ballarat (1901) 25,448, of Ballarat East, 18,262 . Ballarat is the second city and the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold-See also:

• MINING

mining centre of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state . The alluvial gold-See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields were the richest ever opened up, but as these deposits have become exhausted the See also:

• QUARTZ

quartz reefs at deep levels have been exploited, and several mines are worked at depths exceeding 2000 ft . The city is the seat of See also:

• ANGLICAN

Anglican and See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic bishops . It has a number of admirable public buildings, while, among several parks and recreation grounds, mention must be made of the See also:

• FINE

fine botanical See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden, 75o acres it} extent, where, in See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake Wendouree, See also:

• PISCICULTURE (from Lat. piscis, fish)

pisciculture is carried on with See also:

• GREAT

great success . The school of mines is the most important in Australia and is affiliated to the university of Melbourne . Ballarat is an important railway centre and its See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries include woollen-milling, See also:

• BREWING

brewing, See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron-See also:

• FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding, See also:

• FLOUR

flour-miffing and distilling . Owing to its See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation of 1438 ft. it has an exceptionally cool and healthy See also:

• CLIMATE

climate . Although the See also:

• DISTRICT

district is principally devoted to mining it is well adapted for See also:

• SHEEP
• SHEEP (from the Anglo-Saxon sceap, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; e.g. the German Schaf)

sheep-farming, and some of the finest See also:

• WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool in the See also:

• WORLD

world is produced near Ballarat . The existence of the towns is due to the heavy See also:

• IMMIGRATION (from Lat. in, into, and tnigrare, to depart)

immigration which followed upon the See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of the gold-fields in 1851 .

In 1854, in their resistance of an arbitrary tax, the miners came into armed conflict with the authorities; but a See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission was appointed to investigate their grievances; and a See also:

• CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter was granted to the town in 1855 . In 1870 Ballarat was raised to the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of a city .