350 NEW SOUTH WALES. 



in Germany amidst turmoil and bloodslied^ but it is believed that 

 the foundations of the Australian Commonwealth will in a few years 

 be well and truly laid in perfect peace. 



The Eastern home of the original inhabitants of the British Isles 

 is said to have been in the cities of the Modes, whence tribes of 

 them migrated westward along the shores of the Mediterranean until 

 they arrived in Britain ; and in the same manner their descendants 

 afterwards crossed the Atlantic to America, As the tide of civiliza- 

 tion still rolls westward, continuous waves of immigration must here- 

 after flow, not only out of the countries of Europe but also from the 

 large populations in North America, to the Australian continent and 

 to the adjacent islands in Oceana, especially when the Nicaragua 

 Canal has been opened from the Atlantic to the Pacific shores. The 

 island-continent of Australia from its unique geographical position 

 should, therefore, hereafter become the connecting link between the 

 civilizations of the East and West, and consequently the centre of 

 that Greater Britain which will doubtless form one member of a pact 

 between the English speaking races, who in another century, judging 

 from their present progress, should number 1,000,000,000 persons, 

 and be the controlling powers in every cpiarter of the globe. 



