Category: Travel Writing
PORT PHILLIP--EARLY SETTLEMENT AND ABANDONMENT--THE PIONEERS HENTY, BATMAN AND FAWKNER--SIZE OF VICTORIA--MELBOURNE--ITS APPEARANCE--PUBLIC BUILDINGS--STREETS--RESERVES--PRIDE OF ITS PEOPLE--UNEARNED INCREMENT--SANDHURST--BALLARAT--THE CAPITAL OF THE INTERIOR--GEELONG--THE WES...
PORT PHILLIP--EARLY SETTLEMENT AND ABANDONMENT--THE PIONEERS HENTY, BATMAN AND FAWKNER--SIZE OF VICTORIA--MELBOURNE--ITS APPEARANCE--PUBLIC BUILDINGS--STREETS--RESERVES--PRIDE O...
5. CHAPTER V.SURVEY OF THE COLONY--SYDNEY AND ITS HARBOUR--THE GREAT WEST--THE BLUE MOUNTAINS--THEIR GRAND SCENERY--AN AUSTRALIAN SHOW PLACE--THE FISH RIVER CAVES--DUBBO TO THE DARLING--THE...
6. CHAPTER VI.Overland Telegraph Party 98 Government House and General Post Office, Adelaide 99 Waterfall Gully, South Australia 100 A Murray River Boat 101 Adelaide in 1837 102 King William...
7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IX.View of Mount Wellington, Tasmania 142 Corra Linn, Tasmania 143 On the South Esk, Tasmania 145 Views in Tasmania 147 Launceston 148 Hell Gate, Tasmania 149 On the River Derwent 152
10. CHAPTER X.TRAGIC STORIES--FLINDERS AND BASS--ADVENTURES IN A SMALL BOAT--DISCOVERIES--DISAPPEARANCE OF BASS--DEATH OF FLINDERS--EYRE'S JOURNEY--LUDWIG LEICHHARDT--DISAPPEARANCE OF HIS PAR...
11. CHAPTER XI.A Corroboree 166 A Waddy Fight 167 Civilised Aborigines 169 A Boomerang 173 A Native Encampment in Queensland 174 A Native Tracker 175 Church, Schoolhouse, and Encampment at Lak...
12. CHAPTER XII.Australian Tree-Ferns 180 Dingoes 181 The _Sarcophilus_ or 'Tasmanian Devil' 182 Bass River Opossum 183 A Kangaroo Battue 184 The Platypus 186 The Lyre-Bird 187 The Giant Kingfi...
13. CHAPTER XIII.PRESENT MEANING OF THE WORD 'SQUATTER'--CATTLE-RAISING--CAPITAL HAS CONFIDENCE IN SQUATTING NOW--ORIGIN OF MERINO SHEEP-BREEDING--MANAGEMENT OF A RUN--DROUGHT--BOX-TREE CLEARING...
14. CHAPTER I.'Australian Pictures' must necessarily consist of peeps at Australia. It seems presumptuous at first to ask that great island-continent to creep into a single volume. But sketch...
15. CHAPTER II.It is not possible to understand Australia without a glance at the physical conditions of the continent. A good angel and a bad, an evil influence and a beneficial, are ever in...
16. CHAPTER III.The Australian colonies are, one and all, democracies of the most advanced type. Annual Parliaments have been advocated, though at present triennial legislatures are the rule. P...
17. CHAPTER IV.PORT PHILLIP--EARLY SETTLEMENT AND ABANDONMENT--THE PIONEERS HENTY, BATMAN AND FAWKNER--SIZE OF VICTORIA--MELBOURNE--ITS APPEARANCE--PUBLIC BUILDINGS--STREETS--RESERVES--PRIDE O...
18. CHAPTER V.SURVEY OF THE COLONY--SYDNEY AND ITS HARBOUR--THE GREAT WEST--THE BLUE MOUNTAINS--THEIR GRAND SCENERY--AN AUSTRALIAN SHOW PLACE--THE FISH RIVER CAVES--DUBBO TO THE DARLING--THE...
19. CHAPTER VI.South Australia should rather be called Central Australia, for it lies half-way between the western and the eastern seaboard, and the colony runs right through the continent fro...
20. CHAPTER VII.In order to form a just idea of Queensland it is necessary to bear in mind the broad divisions of its territory. First, there is the coast country, which is often spoken of as a...
21. CHAPTER VIII.Western Australia, as its name implies, is the tract of country lying upon the western side of the great island continent of the south. A glance at the map shows that the easter...
22. CHAPTER IX.This island is the smallest of the Australian colonies, and the lover of the picturesque pronounces it to be the fairest of them all. It is a land of mountain and of flood--anot...
23. CHAPTER X.TRAGIC STORIES--FLINDERS AND BASS--ADVENTURES IN A SMALL BOAT--DISCOVERIES--DISAPPEARANCE OF BASS--DEATH OF FLINDERS--EYRE'S JOURNEY--LUDWIG LEICHHARDT--DISAPPEARANCE OF HIS PAR...
24. CHAPTER XI.From large portions of the continent the native has now been absolutely swept away. The immigrant who intends to settle in the populated parts of South Australia, Victoria, New...
25. CHAPTER XII.No large carnivorous animals roam over the Australian plains, to endanger the life of man or to destroy his flocks and herds. Australia is the mother country of the meek and mil...
26. CHAPTER XIII.PRESENT MEANING OF THE WORD 'SQUATTER'--CATTLE-RAISING--CAPITAL HAS CONFIDENCE IN SQUATTING NOW--ORIGIN OF MERINO SHEEP-BREEDING--MANAGEMENT OF A RUN--DROUGHT--BOX-TREE CLEARING...