A Road through an Australian Forest. 



CHAPTER I. 



Introductory. 



Area of Australia — England's Heritage — Natural Riches — Population— Present Prospects of 

 Immigrants— The Six Colonies— Facilities of Travel— Character of People. 



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 sketches of parts and bird's-eye 

 views will often reveal more to the stranger than a minute and fatiguing 

 survey of the whole. These pages, though few in number, will, it is hoped, 

 convey to the reader some idea of that vast new world where Saxons and 

 Celts are peacefully building up another Britain. 



