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Tanner Turgeon at Aug 11, 2020 01:52 PM

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able to grow wool and [?]. Nearly all of Australia is "owned". Of the four million population, three million live in towns and cities. That state of things with a country only a little smaller than the U. S. and Alaska combined is -- well, I don't know what [?] to wake. The agricultural possibilities of the land are much the same as in the U. S. but Australia is [?] thousand miles from market! Then is a glut of all raw products.

I stopped two days at Ballarat, Victoria in a gold mining region, visited two mines and saw the usual sights of the place. It is a very pretty place, and there is a good deal of business, more for the size than any place yet visited. The Botanical Gardens are very fine -- a perfect [?] a place, with lake, stationary, [?] house and the usual green houses.

things are very slow in Melbourne. People are going through the "convalescent" [slay?] [?] the flush, times of a "boom". Natives compare the city with New York, I should say it was like Cincinnati.

Yours Truly
Jared G. [?]

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able to grow wool and [?]. Nearly all of Australia is "owned". Of the four million population, three million live in towns and cities. That state of things with a country only a little smaller than the U. S. and Alaska combined is -- well, I don't know what [?] to wake. The agricultural possibilities of the land are much the same as in the U. S. but Australia is [?] thousand miles from market! Then is a glut of all raw products.

I stopped two days at Ballarat, Victoria in a gold mining region, visited two mines and saw the usual sights of the place. It is a very pretty place, and there is a good deal of business, more for the size than any place yet visited. The Botanical Gardens are very fine -- a perfect [?] a place, with lake, stationary, [?] house and the usual green houses.

things are very slow in Melbourne. People are going through the "convalescent" [slay?] [?] the flush, times of a "boom". Natives compare the city with New York, I should say it was like Cincinnati.

Yours Truly
Jared G. [?]