The ocean as a health-resort : a handbook of practical information as to sea-voyages for the use of tourists and invalids / by William S. Wilson ; with a chart showing the ocean-routes and illustrating the physical geography of the sea.

Date:
1880
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The ocean as a health-resort : a handbook of practical information as to sea-voyages for the use of tourists and invalids / by William S. Wilson ; with a chart showing the ocean-routes and illustrating the physical geography of the sea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    AUSTRALIA : ITS COLONIES. countries may be mentioned the following: wool, tallow, coals, coffee, gold, tin, lead, maize, wheat, flour, leather, hides, sugar, preserved meat, timber, bark, cheese, butter, wine, live-stock, cotton, tortoiseshell, whale-oil, jams, etc. The railways of Australia are becoming rapidly developed. In^New South Wales there are three lines, two of which start from Sydney and one from Newcastle, the total number of miles open in 1877 being 598. In Victoria there were in January, 1877, no less than 933 miles of railway open for traffic, and 193 miles more in course of construction. South Australia had 291 miles open and 438 miles in course of construction at the same date. In Queensland there were, in 1875, 262 miles of completed and 88 miles of uncompleted line. Tasmania had, in 1877, about 134 miles of railway open for traffic,—the main line running from Launceston to Hobart Town. The colonies into which Australia is divided are the following :— Western Australia, which occupies the whole of the western portion of the continent and is the largest of all the colonies ; South Australia, which, since the Northern Territory or Alexandra Land was annexed to it, in 1863, is the second largest colony, and now occupies the whole central portion of the continent from north to south; Victoria, situated at the exti-eme south of Australia, and which, though the smallest of aU the colonies of the mainland, is perhaps the most prosperous ; JS^ew South Wales, the oldest of the colonies, occupying the south-east; and Queensland, occupying the north-east portions of the continent. Tasmania is an island lying to the south of Victoria, and separated from it by Bass' Strait. The subjoined table will show a few leading facts with reference to each of the above-named colonies.