The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . 1-, ?-ii(,.riii,iiii|.Mili; ,!,ti.|iliilfJii,(i|iitjhilf. VICTORIA: GIPrS LAND. IM huge territories which the representatives of the future territorial magnates of Victoria atpresent divide amongst them. Salcj a town with 3,000 inhabitants, and enough of banks,with Iniildings magniticent enough, too, for ten times the population, is the capital of GipjisLand. These tine bank buildings, in the most out-of-the-way Australian towns, presage nogood. The banking c
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . 1-, ?-ii(,.riii,iiii|.Mili; ,!,ti.|iliilfJii,(i|iitjhilf. VICTORIA: GIPrS LAND. IM huge territories which the representatives of the future territorial magnates of Victoria atpresent divide amongst them. Salcj a town with 3,000 inhabitants, and enough of banks,with Iniildings magniticent enough, too, for ten times the population, is the capital of GipjisLand. These tine bank buildings, in the most out-of-the-way Australian towns, presage nogood. The banking companies are generally the money-lenders of the place, and as thosquatters are often in debt the bankers become in time owners of vast projierties. Someof them are, in a word, the ogres which eat up little men. Walhalla, a very smalltown of 1,700 inhabitants, is the centre of quartz and other mining operations. Jericho
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