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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2565, 27 March 1877, Page 3

"After all that has been said," observes the Sydney Echo, " about the ignorance of Australian geography shown by people iv Great Britain, it was hoped that the new' and revised edition of " Brokes' General Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary of the World," lately announced by Tegg and Co. r London (and the title page of which bears date 1876), would help to spread more accurate information. On examining a copy of this work, however, we find, on turning to the word-.' Australia,' that Sydney is the capital on the east coast, and on the north, at Coburg Peninsula, is the town of ' Victoria.' In the description of Sydney, which occupies about half-a-dozen lines, we are told that it has now ;(1876) * a hospital for convicts, and a naval' yard.' The following description of Melbourne will be best appreciated by the Victorians: —'Melbourne, a city of South Australia, the capital of the district of Victoria, in New South Wales. It is quite of modern origin, as its site 12 years ago (that is, in 1864) was a wilderness, only tenanted by the tribe of savages, and the kangaroo, emu, and wild dog! now it has a population of more than one million two hundred thousand! On the western side of the city there is an extensive swamp or rather lake, it being usually covered in its whole extent with water, on the surface of which numerous flocks of waterfowl spbrfc. ' The city is supplied with tolerably pure water from the Yarra Yarra, which has a dam below the wharf to keep the water fresh.' Judging by this, if the other information given in the Gazetteer is equally reliable, what must it be worth ?"

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