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Excerpt from Hand-Book for Emigrants to Queensland, Australia Reference to the Map attached to this pamphlet will show that the Colony of Queensland has no cause to complain of want of space, whatever other drawbacks she may be credited with. A calculated area of nearly square miles, included between latitudes 29 Degrees and 8 Degrees south, and from the sea to longitude 138 Degrees east, provides a large hunting ground for the capitalist seeking investment, and also for the poorly-paid and over crowded labourers of the old country. Further reference to the map shows that a main range, separating the eastern and western waters, runs parallel with the eastern coast line, and is joined by another range at right angles to its course, dividing streams trending north and south. The eastern streams flow directly to the Pacific, the northern to the Gulf of Carpentaria. A portion of the southern ones find their way to the Darling and Murray, and so to the Southern Ocean through Lake Victoria; while another portion rarely find their way to the sea, but help, during the rainy season, to swell the volume of that system of salt pans in South Australia of which Lake Torrens is the most extensive. 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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