The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . n 1877 its exports amounted to the value of £373,352, and its imports to.€362,707. At that date it had 68 miles of railway and 1,567 miles of telegraph open;and the sanguine men of Western Australia are beginning to think that if only gold—good paying gold-diggings—would turn up, the world would flock to their country, andthey would grow rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Perhaps so. jNIeantime, like mostof the other Australian colonies, it consists principally
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . n 1877 its exports amounted to the value of £373,352, and its imports to.€362,707. At that date it had 68 miles of railway and 1,567 miles of telegraph open;and the sanguine men of Western Australia are beginning to think that if only gold—good paying gold-diggings—would turn up, the world would flock to their country, andthey would grow rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Perhaps so. jNIeantime, like mostof the other Australian colonies, it consists principally of coast settlements, the populationrajiidly thinning as the sea is left, until in the interior kangaroos and opossums have itnearly all their own way. Altogether, for little men, with no great ambition and acapacity for waiting, there are many worse countries than Western Australia in which topitch their camps.* • Bercngier: Nouvtllc-Nursie, Histoirc dune Colonie Benedictine dans IAustralie Occidontalc 1840-1878(1879); Jung: Australien und Neueeeland, historisehe, geographische und statistische Skizze (1870), O O ?< D s 211. CHz\PTER : Qieexslaxu; Austualian Ciiakacteristics. We left tlie newest of tlie Australian colonies to the last, but we have said somuch about the otiiers that it is neither necessary nor expedient to devote much spaceto Queensland, extensive, important, and progressive though it be. A few statistics maytherefore suffice to convey to the reader the salient facts about the territory wliich branched off from New South Wales and commenced existence for itself. Tliougli,doubtless, in time the country in tlie vicinity of Cape York will emulate the example ofthe mother colony, yet at present Queensland extends through 19 degrees of latitude and1.)^ of longitude, the whole area comprised within these limits being GC9,.j20 squaremiles, or in all 120,192,800 acres—a region eleven times larger than England. It has
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