A correspondence relating to the discovery of gold in Australia.

  • Earl, George Windsor.
Date:
1853
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Credit: A correspondence relating to the discovery of gold in Australia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ETC. ETC. No. 1. Letter from Mr. Earl to the Right Hon. Lord Colchester. Singapore, April 10th, 1852. My Lord, I have recently met with a paragraph in a work written by a member of the Royal Geographical Society, and dedicated to the President of the Society for the time being, which renders it necessary that I should call to your Lordship’s recollection an essay of mine on the Physical Geography of the Indian Archipelago and adjacent countries, which was read before the Society in 1845, when your Lordship occupied the Presiden- tial Chair, and was published in the Transactions of the Society for the same year. This paper, which gave the general results of a series of enquiries carried on since 1830 in Australia, South- eastern Asia, and among the intermediate islands of the Archi- pelago, went to prove that the mountain ranges of Australia were a continuation of the southern Asiatic ranges ; and summed up as follows:— “ When it is taken into consideration that the primary moun- “ tain ranges both in south-eastern Asia and in Australia pursue “ a precisely similar direction, and that the westernmost Asiatic “ range, if continued, would strike about the N. W. Cape where “ the western Australian range commences, while banks extend- “ ing from both these continents actually approach to within 450