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ORES FROM NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Nov., 1891. 
tokens of respect when he enters them as he would expect 
from a stranger from some far-off land who entered one of 
our own Christian churches ; and it is a courtesy fully under¬ 
stood and appreciated in this land, whose inhabitants seem 
to be Nature’s gentlefolk. 
Wherever we went we were received with easy grace, and 
whenever we left we conformed to the custom of the country 
by asking permission to depart, and invariably heard in reply 
the simple and courteous words, “ You may go; come again.” 
But I must conclude lest you invert this phrase and say, 
“ Go, but do not come again.” 
I trust that I have given you some slight idea of this 
distant land and its pleasing people ; a land where extreme 
contrasts of riches and poverty are scarcely seen, where 
Nature is glorious, and where a religion, venerable in its 
antiquity, can still be studied in almost uncorrupted sim¬ 
plicity ; a land, too, of abundant promise, for everywhere 
outrage and dacoity (that form of crime of which we at home 
hear more than those on the spot) have disappeared or are 
disappearing before a just administration of the law; inter¬ 
course between distant regions is advancing by leaps and 
bounds; everywhere the people sow their crops, garner 
their harvests, and ply their handicrafts in peace and 
security. 
I regard it as the fairest jewel in the crown of the 
Empress of India, and believe that it is destined to grow yet 
fairer and richer, unless we have parted with the energy and 
resolution which have characterised our race in the past. 
NOTE ON SOME ORES FROM THE BARRIER 
RANGES, NEW SOUTH WALES.* 
BY T. H. WALLER, B.A., B.SC. 
The most casual reader of the Australian papers cannot 
fail to remark that our colonial brothers are very much in 
earnest in two directions, business and pleasure, especially in 
* Read before .the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical 
Society, February 18th, 1890. 
