The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . g facts:—When theConstitution was proclaimed the jjopulation of the colony did not number over ;3(j4-,0OO; itnow numbers (December, 1878) 879,386. In 1855 the land under cultivation amounted to115,000 acres; it now amoimts to over 1,120,000 acres. The bushels of wheat grown in 184 THE COrXTKIES OF TllK WORLD. a year then numbered 1,150,000 j they now amount to 7,018, The sheep numbered4,000,000; they now number 10,114,268, a decrease from thiit of the prev
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . g facts:—When theConstitution was proclaimed the jjopulation of the colony did not number over ;3(j4-,0OO; itnow numbers (December, 1878) 879,386. In 1855 the land under cultivation amounted to115,000 acres; it now amoimts to over 1,120,000 acres. The bushels of wheat grown in 184 THE COrXTKIES OF TllK WORLD. a year then numbered 1,150,000 j they now amount to 7,018, The sheep numbered4,000,000; they now number 10,114,268, a decrease from thiit of the previous year. Thecattle numbered 530,000; they now number 1,174,176, including -268,110 milch cows. Thehorses numbered 33,000; they now number not less than over 203,150. The publicrevenue was, in 1854, £2,728,000; it is now (1879) £4,000,000. The value of imjiortswas, in 1854, £12,000,000 ; they now amount to £16,362,304. The value of the exportswas, twenty-five years ago, £13,500,000; it is now £15,157,087, though the cxjiort of goldhas fallen off from £11,000,000 in 1854 to £3,238,612 in 1877—indeed, the returns are. bOUKKE STREET, MELDOVRNE, ylCTOKIA. gradually decreasing. In ten years the number of miners has fallen off from 63,053 in1867 to 38,005 in 1877, the whole population of the gold-fields being 270,428 in quartz miners number 14,690, the alluvial miners 23,315, and of these 9/876 areChinese. These abstract statistics, derived from the latest official returns, show moresaliently than any mere description could the progress which the colony has made andits present standpoint. Victoria, though the wealthiest of the colonies and the mostdensely peopled, is the smallest of them all, its area being only 88,198 square miles (or56,446,720 acres), compared with the 310,938 of New South Wales, the <;(;9,520 ofQueensland, the 9();5,690 of South Australia, and the 1,000,000 square miles of almostunpeopled country which is claimed by Western Australia. Its
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