The Origins of Melbourne

Melbourne was the only Australian capital that was established illegally by free enterprise ahead of government. Two rival speculators from Van Diemen's land make their way across Bass Street. They've run out of really good pastoral land in Tasmania, so they're looking to find land across the Strait. The reason they chose that site was that if you make your way up the river Yarra from Port Phillip Bay, you reach a point where you can't proceed further up the river because there's a rocky bar across it.