CHAPTER VI.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

CONFIGURATION--THE LAKE COUNTRY--HEAT IN SUMMER--FRUIT--GLENELG--ADELAIDE--MOUNT LOFTY RANGE--PARKS AND BUILDINGS--MOSQUITO PLAIN CAVES--CAMELS--THE OVERLAND TELEGRAPH LINK LINE--PEAKE STATION--THE NORTHERN TERRITORY--EARLY MISFORTUNES--PRESENT PROSPECTS--INSECT LIFE--ALLIGATORS--BUFFALOES. 97-114

_Illustrations_:

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 Street, Adelaide 104 An Adelaide Public School 105 Reaping in South Adelaide 106 Camel Scenes 108 Peake Overland Telegraph Station 109 Collingrove Station, South Australia 111 Sheep in the Shade of a Gum-tree 112 The Botanical Gardens, Adelaide 114