Corra Lynn, Tasmania. 



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CHAPTER IX. 



Tasmania. 



A Holiday Resort for Australians— Launceston— The North and South Esk — Mount Bischoff— 

 A Wild District— The Old Main Road— Hobart— The Derwent— Port Arthur— Convicts— Facts 

 and Figures. 



THIS island is the smallest of the Australian colonies, and the lover of 

 the picturesque pronounces it to be the fairest of them all. It is a 

 land of mountain and of flood — another Scotland, but with a perennial blue 

 sky and an Italian climate. Now that there is a leisured and a wealthy class 

 in Australia, this wealth of scenery is becoming a real fortune to Tasmania. 

 A twenty hours' run takes the holiday-maker from Melbourne wharves to 

 Launceston, and then the island, with its streams, its hills and its fisheries, is 

 open to him. The rush of excursionists to enjoy the cool weather and the 



