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on the coast to be considered as Cape Howe being deter- 

 mined upon, it became necessary to run a line from 

 one point so as to strike the other at a distance of 

 over 100 miles. To do this, the true difference of 

 latitude and longitude of both points had to be determined. 

 This demanded an extension of the triangulation to Cape 

 Howe and Gabo Island on the one hand, and to Forest-hill, 

 the Pilot, and Moant Kosciusko on the other — operations of 

 a most difficult and expensive character, involving great 

 hardships and often great danger to those engaged on it. It 

 has, however, been accomplished, and the true bearing of a 

 line started from Forest-hill in the N.W. that will strike 

 Cape Howe in the S.E., has been computed in accordance 

 with the best knowledge we possess of the figure of the 

 earth. 



The difficulties besetting the inception and growth of the 

 industries of a new country, and the progress made in the 

 face of such impediments, is well illustrated by the progress 

 of our manufacture of preserved meats. In Victoria, for 

 many years to come, the supply of animal food must prove 

 in excess of the local demand, while its export in an unpro- 

 tected condition is prevented by the liability of the material 

 to rapid putrefactive decay. Our lists of patented inven- 

 tions show that considerable spirit and enterprise have been 

 devoted to working out some new processes for meat 

 preservation more efficient than those already in use ; but 

 these newly-proposed methods — those by refrigeration, by 

 injecting the entire carcase with preservative fl.uids, by 

 investing the meat in paraffin, and, in fact, by other 

 methods, which appear feasible enough if we regard only the 

 broad principles of each, have as yet presented such formid- 

 able difficulties opposing their reduction to practice, that 

 the well-known method of Appert, of cooking and hermetic- 

 ally sealing the meat in tins, is, notwithstanding its 



