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Excerpt from Australian Life in Town Country It is necessary to conceive Of Australia not as a colony containing a population equal to little more than one half the number of inhabitants of the city Of London, but as an immense continent, three million square miles in extent. Compared to other continents, which have their coast lines indented by huge gulfs, and which push great peninsulas out into the ocean, Australia is a Sin gularly solid piece of land. As a matter Of fact, its coast line is smaller in proportion to its area than that of any other continent. The physical con tour Of the continent is remarkable for the same monotony. Its surface is, broadly speaking, a graduated system of immense plateaux and plains. The one striking feature in Australian orography is a strip of highland running from north to south along the eastern coast. These highlands, which separate the coastal plains and valleys from the immense level interior of the continent, bear the general name of the Dividing Range. In the south-eastern corner of Australia, this range bends westward, traversing the whole state Of Victoria and ending near the eastern border Of South Aus tralia. It is in the south-eastern corner that the Dividing Range attains its greatest altitude, sev eral peaks Of the Australian Alps being over seven thousand feet in height. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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