. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. TO THE NORTH. 317 CHAPTER XIY. FROM SYDNEY TO BRISBANE.—POLITICAL DIVISIONS OF AUSTRALIA.—ORDER INWHICH THE COLONIES AVERE FOUNDED.—EXPLORATIONS AND THEIR EXTENT.—DOCTOR BASS AND CAPTAIN FLINDERS.—ABSENCE OF AVATER IN THE INTERIOROF AUSTRALIA.—A COUNTRY OF STRANGE CHARACTERISTICS.—NATURES RE-VERSES.—HOW THE COLONIES ARE GOVERNED.—RELIGION ANIK EDU
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. TO THE NORTH. 317 CHAPTER XIY. FROM SYDNEY TO BRISBANE.—POLITICAL DIVISIONS OF AUSTRALIA.—ORDER INWHICH THE COLONIES AVERE FOUNDED.—EXPLORATIONS AND THEIR EXTENT.—DOCTOR BASS AND CAPTAIN FLINDERS.—ABSENCE OF AVATER IN THE INTERIOROF AUSTRALIA.—A COUNTRY OF STRANGE CHARACTERISTICS.—NATURES RE-VERSES.—HOW THE COLONIES ARE GOVERNED.—RELIGION ANIK EDUCATION.—JEALOUSY OF THE COLONIES TOWARDS EACH OTHER. —NEWCASTLE AND ITSCOAL. — RAILWAY TRAVELLING IN NEW SOUTH WALES.—TENTERFIELD ANDSTANTHORPE.—COBBS COACHES.—AUSTRALIAN SCENERY.—THE EUCALYPTUS,OR GUM-TREE.—THE TALLEST TREES IX THE WORLD.—SILVER STEMS AND MAL-LEE SCRUB.—BRISBANE—RELICS OF THE CONVICT SYSTEM.—QUEEN STREETAND THE BOTANICAL GARDENS. A COASTING steamer carried Doctor Bronson and his young com-panions to Newcastle, a town which resembles the English one ofthe same name in being an important centre of the coal-trade. Thedistance from Sydney is about seventy-five miles, and consequently the. INTERIOR OF A COAL-BREAKER. voyage was of only a few hours duration; even this limited time wasutilized by a conversation about the political divisions of Australia andthe relations between the colonies. The conversation began with a question from Doctor Bronson as towhat the youths had learned on the subject since their arrival at Syd-ney or on the voyage from New Zealand. Frank was the first to reply^ 318 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. We have read to you our notes, said he, about the settlement ofNew South Wales by the fleet of ships that came out from England byorder of the Government. Kew South Wales was thus the parent col-ony, and the others, with one exception, are offshoots from it. In 1790New South Wales established a penal
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