Greater Britain: a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867 . urne. Judging from the Colonial Government reports, whichimmigrants are conjured by the inspectors to procure andread, and which are printed in a cheap form for the j)urpose,the New South Welsh can hardly wish to lure settlers into the bush ; for in one of these documents, published whileI was in Sydney, the curator of the Museum reported that inhis explorations he never went more than twelve miles fromthe city, but that within that circuit he found seventeen dis-tinct species of laq^-snakes, two of sea-sn
Greater Britain: a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867 . urne. Judging from the Colonial Government reports, whichimmigrants are conjured by the inspectors to procure andread, and which are printed in a cheap form for the j)urpose,the New South Welsh can hardly wish to lure settlers into the bush ; for in one of these documents, published whileI was in Sydney, the curator of the Museum reported that inhis explorations he never went more than twelve miles fromthe city, but that within that circuit he found seventeen dis-tinct species of laq^-snakes, two of sea-snakes, thirty of liz-ards, and sixteen of frogs—seventy-eight species of reptilesrewarded him in all. The seventeen species of land-snakesfound by him within the suburbs were named by the curatorin a printed list; it commenced with the pale-headed snake,and ended with the death-adder. CHAPTER m. • VICTOEIA. The smallest of our southern colonies except Tasmania—one-fourth the size of New South Wales, one-eighth of Queens-land, one-twelfth of West Australia, one-fifteenth of South. BUSH SOENEBT.
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