Advanced Geography . orth-ern Australia? See mapson jmge 22. What windscarry rains to the southerncoast ? What other conti-nents receive rains from thesame belt of winds ? When the equatorialrains of the southern summeroccur in the campos of Braziland in the Kongo basin, they reach the1^?northern part of Australia also. In thatseason the drying southerly winds, mov-ing towards the heat equator, pass overthe plain of middle Australia. Duringthe southern winter, the winds blow out-ward from this continent and therefore yieldlittle rain. Thus the middle plain is almost rainless. The basin of the
Advanced Geography . orth-ern Australia? See mapson jmge 22. What windscarry rains to the southerncoast ? What other conti-nents receive rains from thesame belt of winds ? When the equatorialrains of the southern summeroccur in the campos of Braziland in the Kongo basin, they reach the1^?northern part of Australia also. In thatseason the drying southerly winds, mov-ing towards the heat equator, pass overthe plain of middle Australia. Duringthe southern winter, the winds blow out-ward from this continent and therefore yieldlittle rain. Thus the middle plain is almost rainless. The basin of the Murray river is thought to be aboutone third as large as that of the Mississippi. The Mur-ray river and its branches form the only large river systemin Australia, and yet even the main stream of this systemis not -deep enough to float large sea-going heavy rainfall in the mountains, small vessels can 1 The Map Studies on page 97 are to precede this lesson. 2 The Katoomba falls are in the Blue ascend the Murray and some of its branches; but in sea-sons of drouth the rivers become too shallow for ship-ping, and some of them are little more than chains ofponds or shallow pools. Inland Australia has a number of large lakes with nooutlet to the sea. These lakes are fedby long shallow streams from ranges. During the dryseasons, many of the lakesdwindle away to salt of the Australian treesare evergreens. Some of themshed their bark instead of theirleaves, and many turn theedges of their leaves to the sun. The giant eucalyptus trees are of this kind. They grow to a great height. Several species of Australian eucalyptus trees are now common in California. The largest forests inAustralia are in the easternhighland region, wherethe rainfall is areas of the in-land plain arecovered with coarsescrubby wild animals ofthis continent differwidely from those inthe other of the kinds oflarge animals in the
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