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Excerpt from The Dominion of Australia: An Account of Its Foundations Effects of the outlines and position of a tract of land upon its climate - Size and uniformity of Australia - The one great plain - two-fifths of this plain without a system of drainage-watersheds - Thom son river - Darling river - Margins and watersheds of this plain its exposure coastwise. IN received descriptions of Australia, the impressions of the narrator and of the reader have been generally ao quired from the most accessible portions of the country. The appearance of the settlements near Sydney or Mel bourne are held to be typical of all the land; and their peculiarities being unaccountable on the spot, the country is considered strange and even anomalous. We are told of the monotonous landscape, the invariable forest of scantily-clad evergreens, of their identity in form, ap pearance, and often of species, throughout 20 degrees of latitude; we are told of trees which shed their bark and not their leaves, of gigantic evergreens which have little or no shade, of rivers without water, of cloudless skies; we are told that all is monotonous, and yet quite contrary to our former experiences of nature. But there is seldom any reason assigned, very rarely any cause traced, for B. 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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