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POPULAR
GEOGKAPHICAL LIBRARY.
AUSTRALASIA.
Contents
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alaysia ... . . 14
Polynesia . . . t . .20
Appendix
An Act for the better government of her Majesty's
Australian colonies . . . .361
Remonstrance of the vSelect Committee of the Legislative Council, against the Act of Parliament. 13 & 14 Vic. cap. 69 . . 385
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Earl Grey's Ddspatch in answer to Eemoustranc* 392 Statistical Returns of New South. Wales . . 407
Present Condition of the Gold-fields . . 425
The City and Port of Sydney . . .448
Sydney Tariff ..... 461 Present state of Melbourne . . . .457
The Quarter's Revenue (ending 30 Sept. 1852) . 461 The Adelaide Gold-fields . . . .463
Report of the Chairman of the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce (George Elder, Esq., of the firm of A. L. Elder & Co.) . . .466
South Australian Tariff .... 472 The Enforcement of tJontracts made in England with
reference to iN'ew South Wales . . . 474
Australian Exports .... 476
Steam Communication with the Australian Colonies 477 Ocean Penny Postage . . . .478
AUSTEALASIA,
In introducing this extensive and valuable British colony to the notice of our readers, it may be necessary to give a description of the fifth quarter of the globe, to which it is allowed by geographers to belong ; we will, therefore, do so as shortly as possible.
OcEANiCA is the name which has been adopted to designate all the countries which are considered as forming the Fifth grand Division of the Globe. Up to the middle of the last century, and even later, theoretical geographers, (from the fanciful idea of the necessity of an equilibrium in the solid parts of the surface of the earth, j supposed tliat a vast continent surrounded the Antartic Pole, and they gave the name of Terra Australis to this imaginary region. When the errors of these speculative writers were corrected by the voyages and discoveries of the celebrated navigator Captain Cook, ail the islands lying south of Asia, and those in the Pacific Ocean, had already received peculiar proper names. It did not seem convenient to the geographers of that period to add those islands to any particular quarter of the globe ; and
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