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Title: The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ficial publications—especially thoseprepared for foreign perusal—must be distinctly aware of. In New Zealand the blast isstill louder, and even the forlorn colonies of Tasmania and Western Australia will, ifcaught in a cheerful frame of mind, blow a little. In fiict, all young communities areaddicted to a rational—and occasionally irrational—pride in the country or city in whichthey have cast their lot, and so the traveller must be churlish to snarl at what, with hiswider experience and more elevated standpoint, he knows not to be so well founded ashe would desire it to be. Alelbourne is emphatically a fine town, but the streets arelong, and when the winds—not tlie cold ones—are blowing, a very little walking is equalto a great deal of exercise. These new towns are laid out on a large scale. Hence formany years they are a little ragged, and Melbourne is no exception. Few of the streets—even the fine Collins Street—are finished, nor has the city /Edile yet been powerful
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190 TIIK COUXTEIE.S OF THE WORLD. enough to get all the houses in one street of the same style of architecture, or even ofthe same pretensions. Hence, though in most of the streets there are iine buildings, noneof them are magnificent throughout. But Melbourne is great inside, if not outside. Itpossesses a university, schools, a museum, and library, all on a sumptuous scale, and a botanicgarden, which, by dint of the eminence of its director, is known in parts of the world whichhas but a vague idea of the city in which it is situated, or of the colony which supports iton such a liberal scale. There are hospitals and benevolent asylums, which stand in theplace of the poor laws and the poor rates of older countries. There are clubs as wellappointed as any in Loudon—indeed, the club is an eminently colonial institution,which has thorouglily engrafted itself in every town of any pretensions—churches as wellfilled as a bishop could desire, and lunatic asylums only too fully occupied, n

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