Government House and General Post Office, Adelaide. 



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 Line — 

 Peake Station — The Northern Territory — Early Misfortunes— Present Prospects — Insect Life 

 —Alligators — Buffaloes. 



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 from north to south. It is an enormous 

 tract, 2,000 miles in length and 700 in breadth. The total area is 903,000 

 square miles, of which at present barely a tenth is in occupation, though 

 exploration has already made known the existence of millions of acres of mag- 

 nificent pasture-land ready for settlement. In the colonies, when you speak 

 of South Australia, you are understood to mean the district of which Adelaide 



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