The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . quartz miners number 14,690, the alluvial miners 23,315, and of these 9/876 areChinese. These abstract statistics, derived from the latest official returns, show moresaliently than any mere description could the progress which the colony has made andits present standpoint. Victoria, though the wealthiest of the colonies and the mostdensely peopled, is the smallest of them all, its area being only 88,198 square miles (or56,446,720 acres), compared with t
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . quartz miners number 14,690, the alluvial miners 23,315, and of these 9/876 areChinese. These abstract statistics, derived from the latest official returns, show moresaliently than any mere description could the progress which the colony has made andits present standpoint. Victoria, though the wealthiest of the colonies and the mostdensely peopled, is the smallest of them all, its area being only 88,198 square miles (or56,446,720 acres), compared with the 310,938 of New South Wales, the <;(;9,520 ofQueensland, the 9();5,690 of South Australia, and the 1,000,000 square miles of almostunpeopled country which is claimed by Western Australia. Its extreme lengtli from east VICTOKIA: ITS PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 185 to west is about 420 geographieal miles, and its greatest breadth 250 miles, but owing tothe deep indentation of Western Port and Port Phillip its coast-line extends to nearly 600miles. The highest mountain range in Victoria—the Bogongs—has an elevation of 6,508 feet,. VIEW OF I-ERX-TKEE CAVE, GIIPS LAND, VICTOKIA but there are several others ranging from 4,000 to 0,000 feet. The Munay (p. ISl) runsalong the northern boundary for 070 miles, but the Goulburn, with a length of 230 miles,is the longest river which flows throughout its course entirely in Victoria. The surface ofthe colony is varied, its entire length being traversed by a chain of hills, completely dividing itinto two parts, and thence called the Dividing Range, though this range sends off a numberof spurs in different directions. There are numerous salt and fresh-water lakes and lagoons,144 186 HIE COUXTKIES OF THE WOULD. but many of them arc, tluring; the dry season, little more than swamps, and some of themare the craters of extinct volcanoes. A g-rcat part of the colony, however, consists ofcattle and sheep runs of the character already indicated. Henc
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