West Melbourne Swamp as a ‘Salt lake’, 1837

West Melbourne Swamp as a ‘Salt Lake, at the time quite dry’. Hoddle’s grid of streets has been superimposed over surveyor of Robert Russell’s work.

Map showing the site of Melbourne and the position of the Huts & Building previous to the foundation of the Township by Sir Richard Bourke in 1837, Robert Russell. Courtesy of Historic Plan Collection, Victorian Public Records Office