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Title: Foot-prints of travel; or, Journeyings in many lands
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ballou, Maturin M(urray) 1820-1895
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s is thought to be the centre of the richestgold-producing district in the world. Beechworth, onehundred and seventy miles northeast of Melbourne, at anelevation higher than that of Ballarat, is nearly as populous,and as prolific in the precious metal. The diggings ofMaryborough district, situated a hundred and fifty milesnorthwest of Melbourne, are famous, and give occupationto some eight thousand miners. Castlemaine, seventy-fivemiles north of the capital, has proved very profitable in itsyield of gold. Nearly forty square miles of gold-bearinglands are being worked by Europeans and Chinese in thedistrict of Ararat, a hundred and fifty miles north of Mel-bourne. From these several sources of mineral wealththere flows constantly towards the capital a stream ofriches, making it probably the greatest gold-producingcentre on the globe. There are about fifty thousand peo-ple, in all, engaged in gold-mining in the several parts ofVictoria, at least ten thousand of whom are Chinese. Still,
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yOURNEYINGS IN MANY LANDS. 63 reliable statistics show that in the aggregate, the corn andwool of this province are alone of more monetary valuethan is the result from all the gold produced by her mines. The kangaroos are found in various parts of Victoria, intheir wild state. They are usually discovered in the thickwoods, sitting upright in circles of a dozen or more, as graveas though engaged in holding a formal council. On suchoccasions their short forepaws hang Hmp before them,while their restless heads and delicate ears turn hither andthither in watchful care against surprise. Notwithstandingtheir huge paunches, big hindquarters, and immense tails,there is something graceful and attractive about these crea-tures. When they are young they are as playful as kittens.Even when running away from pursuit, — a process per-formed by enormous leaps, often covering a rod at aflying jump, — there is a certain airy grace and harmonyof movement attending their motions. Dogs and horseshave

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