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AUSTRALIAN PICTURES. 



the locomotive he can visit places where a few years back the explorers 

 perished ! Only if he is very ambitious of sight-seeing need he have recourse 

 to coach, horse, or the popular American — but acclimatised — buggy. 



So far as the people are concerned, he will find that he is still in the 

 old country. Traveller after traveller, Mr. Archibald Forbes and Lord 

 Rosebery in turn, and a host of others, affirm that the typical Australian is 

 apt to be more English than the Englishman. There is no aristocracy, it 

 is true, and no National Church. Each state is a democracy pure and 

 simple, under the English flag. But the Queen has nowhere more devoted 

 and loyal subjects, and nowhere are the Churches more numerous, more 

 active, and apparently more blessed in results. The traveller meets with 

 English manners, English sympathies, and a frank hospitality which, the 

 compilers of books and the deliverers of lectures affirm, is peculiar to 

 Australia. But he finds the race amid novel surroundings, amid scenery 

 whose peculiarity is vastness, with a distinctive vegetation unlike any other, 

 with seasons which have little resemblance to those of the old country ; and 

 the occupations of the people, he discovers, are also often new. When a 

 writer undertakes to sketch the scene, it must be his fault if he has 

 nothing of interest to relate. 



CORANDERRK STATION. 



