125° 120° 115 



85° states 80° 75° 70° 



OUTLINE MAP OP AUSTRALIA SUPERPOSED ON OUTLINE OE PART OP NORTH AMERICA 

 OF SAME SCALE, IN CORRECT LATITUDE 



Only one-twentieth of the total area of Australia lies in a latitude farther removed from 

 the Equator than Chattanooga, Tennessee, Clarendon, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

 Considerably less than one-third of its area lies in a cooler latitude than the sugar-cane, lands 

 of Louisiana. 



the westerlies, the "roaring forties" of 

 the sailor, deposit their moisture on the 

 lands along Bass Strait and on the south- 

 west tip of the continent, but have little 

 or none to carry inland. The north coast 

 is alternately drenched and dried with the 

 coming and going of monsoons. The 

 center of the continent is therefore arid, 

 large parts are desert, and the numerous 

 large lakes shown on the map are ex- 

 panses of salt mud covered with water by 

 infrequent rains (see page 488). 



Australia's streams are fewer and carry 

 less water than those of any other con- 

 tinent. 



AUSTRALIA HAS NO RIVERS LIKE OURS 



There are in Australia no Colorados 

 or Columbias or Tennessees, trenching 

 plateaus and crossing mountain chains, 

 and no counterparts of the thousands of 

 spring- fed brooks and streams issuing 

 from lakes widely scattered over the 

 country. The St. Lawrence system of 

 lakes and rivers of large volume and 

 steady flow is the very antithesis of any- 

 thing found in Australia. The large area 

 in Utah and Nevada from which dwin- 

 dling streams never escape to the sea is 

 represented in Australia by an enormous 



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