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doing good work & is highly spoken of by scientific workers.
Australia is a rich country with the one drawback of scanty population but that will in time be remedied as immigration is setting this way and we Americans will then hear more of the advantages set forth. I was quite ignorant of the character of the land and people and was much surprised at what I found Expecting to see the land held by blacks with only here and there a ranch or station an agreeable surprise awaited I find many points about the state of Society that would furnish good examples for the Yankees though of course not admiting that the Australian cousins are a head in all things South Australia is the most Democratic land on Earth, saving that it is still a colony and has its governor sent from England, - a democracy the outgrowth of purely English civilization instead of as in the U.S. of an amalgamation of all the nations. A few years and there will be a Federated Australia, Republican in government.
Instead of sending a band of religious enthusiasts to people the new continent the English government for years used this section of the Globe as a dumping ground for the refuse and dregs of society, so that while an American points with pride to the early years of his nation, the Australian inclines to draw the curtain to hide the shame and misery and degradation of an Ancient Regime that ended only fifty years ago. There is