...protection of Providence, to exp^" the vast natural resources of a region more extensive than Great Br.'J equally rich in point of soil, and which now lies ready for the pious many parts, as if specially prepared by the Creator for the i hands of Englishmen." No. 2. Page...

...the words of his own dispatch, " of vast resources, and the most varied and fascinating description, more extensive than Great Britain, equally rich in point of soil, and which is now ready for the plough, as if especially prepared by the Creator for the industrious hands of...

...population. Its extent is, as it were, boundless ; including the beautiful land of Australia Felix, " a region more extensive than Great Britain, equally rich in point of soil, and now lying ready for the plough in many parts, as if specially prepared by the Creator for the industrious...

...Mitchell, who describes it as ' of vast resources, and the most various and fascinating description, more extensive than Great Britain, equally rich in point of soil, and which is now ready for the plough, as if especially prepared by the Creator for the industrious hands of...

...described by Major Mitchell, as of " vast resources, of the most various and fascinating description, more extensive than Great Britain, equally rich in point of soil, and ready for the plough." The capital of the settlement is Melbourne, on the falls of the river Yarra...

...Mitchell describes the interior "as of vast resources, of the most various and fascinating description, more extensive than Great Britain, equally rich in point of soil, and ready for the plough." The land is well clothed with grass, and requires no clearing, the trees being...

...and which has been so well described by Sir Thomas Mitchell, the Surveyor-General of the Colony, as " a region more extensive than Great Britain, equally rich in point of soil, which now lies ready for the plough in many parts, as if specially prepared by the Creator for the...

...and which has been so well described by Sir Thomas Mitchell, the SurveyorGeneral of the colony, as " a region more extensive than Great Britain, equally rich in point of soil, which now lies ready for the plough in many parts, as if especially prepared by the Creator for the...

...SurveyorGeneral of the colony, as " a region more extensive than Great Britain, equally rich in point of soil, which now lies ready for the plough in many parts, as if especially prepared by the Creator for the industrious hands of Englishmen ;" and there is the whole...

...north, that he named it Australia Felix. It is a country, he says in his report of October 24, 1636, " more extensive than Great Britain, equally rich in...Creator for the industrious hands of Englishmen." Since that expedition, Mitchell, now Sir Thomas and Lieutenant Colonel, has attempted to find a stream...