Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . ailing vessel City of Camlnidi^i. These unfortunatemen had nothing to eat but a scanty mess of salt pork, which they were cooking on a fiatstone in the center of their little craft. We took them on board. Tasmania was discovered in 1642 by a Dutch navigator, Abel James Tasman, who wascotnmissioned by Anthony Van Dieman, (lovernor-Ceneral of Hatavia, to exjjlore the conti-nent now called .Australia, but then termed the great unknown South Land, and who namedit after his
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . ailing vessel City of Camlnidi^i. These unfortunatemen had nothing to eat but a scanty mess of salt pork, which they were cooking on a fiatstone in the center of their little craft. We took them on board. Tasmania was discovered in 1642 by a Dutch navigator, Abel James Tasman, who wascotnmissioned by Anthony Van Dieman, (lovernor-Ceneral of Hatavia, to exjjlore the conti-nent now called .Australia, but then termed the great unknown South Land, and who namedit after his patron. Although known by several navigators, who had encounters with thehostile natives, it was not discovered to be separate from Australia until 1798, when Mr. , a surgeon in the British J<.oyal Navy, discovered the existence of a dividing first settlement was made at Hobart Town, and was followed by that at York Town andLaunceston, and in 1813 its ports were opened to English commerce. The profits made onthe first importations of English goods were enormous; and many men who have since counted. LVRE BIRDS OP SOITH SHA ISLANDS. 60 , 0/i yAX OILMANS LAMh their incomes by tens of tlioiisands, and feasted royally at ilieir own tables, made their firstmoney by shoiilderinj^ a ])eddlers pack. Tasmania is divided into eighteen counties, four of which are wholly unoccupied. Thegreat Wellington range of mountains traverses the length of the island, and has been ajjtlytermed the backbone of the colony. The loftiest eminence does not reach thousandfeet elevation. .Ml portions of the country not occupied by primary ranges are generallyhilly, the surface swelling into long and lofty ridges tailed tiers, and viewed from an em-inence give to the landscape a very unequal and undulatory aspect. A\hcre granite, cjuartz,and micaceous rock is found the soil is uniformly poor, while in the trajj-rock district!*, whichcover many thousands of scpiare miles, n
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