WARRNAMBOOL  , a seaport of

Villiers county, Victoria, Australia, 166 m. by rail W.S.W. of Melbourne . Pop . (1901) 641o . The town lies on an eminence, on the shores of Warrnambool Bay, in a rich pastoral and agricultural district . Race meetings are held here, and the steeplechase course is considered the finest in the colony . Warrnambool has a fine port with a viaduct and breakwater pier 2400 ft. in length, and a jetty 86o ft. in length, on to which the railway runs . Large quantities of dairy produce, wool and live stock are exported; and there are a number of flourishing industries in the town, including brewing, flour-milling, tanning and boot and biscuit manufacturing . Sandstone Y Baillie, Letters and Journals (Bannatyne Club, 1841) . abounds in the district and is extensively quarried . The summer climate is the coolest in the Australian states .