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A USTRALASIA ILL USTRA TED. 



point at which the 

 great navigator bade 

 farewell to the land of 

 his discovery. How- 

 ever, the name is now 

 used to designate only 

 the colony lying be- 

 tween twenty-eight and 

 thirty - seven degrees 

 south latitude, and the 

 meridians of one hun- 

 dred and forty-one and 

 one hundred and fifty- 

 four degrees east longi- 

 tude. Taken diagonally, its greatest length is nine hundred 

 miles, but its length due north and south is about six hun- 

 dred and fifty ; its greatest breadth is about seven hundred and 

 sixty miles. Its eastern side is longer than its western, and in shape 

 it is an irregular quadrangle. The colony of Queensland forms its 

 northern boundary, from which it is separated by the Dumaresq 



River, the Dividing Range and Macpherson's Range. The Pacific Ocean bounds it on 

 the east, and the colony of Victoria on the south, from which it is separated by a 

 surveyed straight line from Cape Howe to the source of the Murray, thence by that 

 river to the meridian of one hundred and forty-one degrees east, which forms its western 

 limit and separates it from the colony of South Australia. 



RICHMOND RIVER AT CORAKI. 



