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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