Identifier: completegeograph02tarr (find matches)
Title: A complete geography
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Tarr, Ralph S. (Ralph Stockman), 1864-1912 McMurry, Frank Morton, 1862- (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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cethe low interior rises gradually to plateaus and mountains whichoften descend steeply toward the sea. While there are some low,short ranges in the interior, the highest land is in the east, where themountains run parallel to the coast. In the southeast some of thepeaks reach a height of over a mile. The mountains of eastern Australia, like the Appalachians of NorthAmerica, are the worn-down remains of an ancient mountain system.Still further like the Appalachians, they served to check the extensionof early settlements inland. Tasmania is really a continuation of theeastern highland, as Newfoundland is a continuation of the mountainsof eastern North America. The streams which flow eastward to the Pacific, cascade downthe mountains in short courses. Of the others in eastern Australiasome end in the lakes of interior basins, and some evaporate in thedry climate ; but many unite with the Darling and Murray rivers,which are at times navigable for long distances. During the dry 528 RABBIT
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PLATYPUS The M N.Co^Buffalo. KANGAROO Fig. 5o8.Some Australian animals. The platypus lays eggs like a bird or reptile. The kanga-roo, like other marsupials, carries its unpi-oteeted young in a pouch. Where elsehave we found large running birds like the emu?

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