Mercury 37,000,000 2 months 3100 Venus 69,000,000 7-1/2 ” 7900 Earth 93,000,000 1 year 7920 Mars 146,000,000 2 years 4000 Jupiter 494,000,000 12 ” 92,000 Saturn 906,000,000 30 ” 75,000 Herschel 1820,000,000 80 ” 36,000 Neptune 2850,000,000 164 ” 33,600 REVIEWS OF MR. BONWICK’S COLONIAL WORKS. ROBERTSON, PUBLISHER. Geography of Australia and New Zealand. 3rd Edition. “Mr. Bonwick is entitled to great credit for this attempt to create an Australian school literature, and as his book is used by the educational boards of Melbourne, a better testimonial to its value is afforded than any general expression of approbation by the press could yield.”--Sydney _Morning Herald_. “Mr. Bonwick has been for many years resident in these colonies; he has access to the best sources of information; he has been indefatigable in his efforts to produce a book which might be a standard one on the subject he treats; and he has succeeded.”--Melbourne _Argus_. “It is the work of a man thoroughly familiar with his subject, a colonist of fourteen years’ standing, a traveller, and a practical teacher. The book does not contain a superfluous word; it is what a book for schools should be,--compact and simple.”--London _Athenæum_, October, 1856. “From what we know of Mr. Bonwick’s antecedents, he is the person best adapted to prepare such a work. A man of education, liberal and enlightened views, a resident of many years’ standing in these southern lands, and a person possessed of much experience in tuition, must have been well adapted for the task he has executed.”--Sydney _Freeman’s Journal_. Discovery and Settlement of Port Phillip. “Future historians will turn to it as a repertory of valuable facts, lucidly, systematically, and chronologically stated; for the most part well authenticated, and all of them of the deepest interest, because bearing upon the infancy and rapidly maturing youth of a country whose splendid destinies have yet to be revealed, and whose future greatness may transcend both our hopes and our belief.”--Melbourne _Argus_, 1856. “My chief object being to depict Victoria, not as she was, but, as she is now, I shall not trouble the reader with long narrations of early history. These have been earnestly and copiously given by the industry of Mr. Bonwick in his recent publications.”--Mr. Westgarth’s “Victoria.” The Wild White Man and the Blacks of Victoria. Two Shillings.