CHAPTER IX.

A Melbourne Half-Holiday.--Inconsistency of Laborers.--Vice- Royal Residence.--Special Gold-Fields of Victoria.--Ballarat. --Great Depths in Mines.--Agricultural Interests.--Sandhurst. --The Giant Trees of Australia.--The Kangaroo.--In Victorian Forests.--Peculiar Salt Lakes.--The Bower-bird's Retreat.-- The Wild Dog.--Desirable and Undesirable Emigrants.--No Place for the Intemperate 202-222