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itself with a crown of gold, it presents a lovely sight, 

 even in the shadow of the giants of the eucalyptus race. 

 The sight of a eucalyptus forest intermingled with the 

 fern trees and the golden wattles and sprinkled with 

 the fresh and brilliant early spring flowers is inspiring 

 and leaves a pleasant impression which time can never 

 erase from memory. 



Fremantle, Australia, August. 15. 



THE ADELAIDE HOSPITALS. 



Adelaide is the capital of the state of Southern Aus- 

 tralia. A railroad seven miles long connects it with the. 

 harbor, Port Adelaide. It is the intellectual as well as 

 the business center of the state. The city is located 

 in the midst of an extensive fertile plain, with a range 

 of tree-clad hills in the distance and the ocean in the 

 opposite direction. Its streets are wide, well laid out, 

 well paved and clean, but the electric lighting is con- 

 ducted on an economic scale. Present population, 60.- 

 000. The bobtail horse trams remind one of the size 

 of the city, while the substantial sandstone buildings in 

 its main streets would do credit to any of our large 

 cities. Australian cities have, fortunately, no need of 

 sky scrapers, which disfigure our large cities; buildings 

 more than three stories high are the exception, and 

 time-saving, muscle-weakening and lung-crippling ele- 

 vators have as yet but a limited sphere of questionable 

 usefulness. Adelaide has a young, prosperous univer- 

 sity, splendid botanic and zoologic gardens, public li- 

 brary, art gallery, museum and a number of attractive 

 parks. It is an ideal university city, where students are 

 given all conceivable opportunities to enrich their minds 

 with object lessons in all the arts and sciences, and 

 where they are free from the many temptations which 

 lurk in such abundance in all of the large cities. Medi- 

 cal students are given here very thorough didactic 

 teaching, and the clinical material is large enough for 

 practical instruction in medicine, surgery and the dif- 



