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The article focuses on Welsh immigrant settlements in the gold mining areas of Ballarat and Sebastopol in Victoria, Australia during the later half of the nineteenth century. The author argues that the Welsh immigrants failed to maintain a unique Welsh Australian community due to their habits of marrying outside of their ethnolinguistic community, their lack of religious unity, the necessity of learning English, their refusal to live in exclusive Welsh settlement areas, and their desire to become assimilated.