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to the chains that were about their camels' 

 necks ; we trace it through the fleets of Hiram, 

 laden with the gold of Opm'r ; through the 

 glory and the splendour of Solomon ; through 

 Carthage and her hundred cities along the 

 shores of the Mediterranean; through the 

 ancient refinement and barbaric splendour ; 

 through the history of Jews and Gentiles ; 

 through settlement by land and by sea." 



" Hugely as the shores of the Mediterranean 

 are exceeded by the shores of the Atlantic, so 

 are the shores of the Atlantic exceeded by those 

 of the Pacific. Already, along the vast and 

 hitherto silent shores of that great ocean 

 from California to Australia, from JSTew Zealand 

 to British Columbia empires are springing up, 

 and cities grow, as it were, in a day. Eapid as 

 has been the progress of the United States of 

 America, it has been found that the state of 

 California has increased as much in one year as 

 many of the Atlantic states in a whole century. 

 It has been said that Melbourne has grown 

 more populous, more wealthy, and of greater 

 political importance, in ten years, than Sydney 

 in fifty." 



The series of gold discoveries, which com- 

 menced with 1847, has, within the last few 

 years, assumed gigantic proportions. Already, 



