Mermaid's Cave, the, New South Wales, 90 Mersey, river, 145 Mitchell, Sir Thomas, verdict of, 39 Mitchell grass, 205 M'Kinlay, expedition of, 164 Moreton Bay, 118 Moore, Mr. G. F., on aborigines, 169 Morriss, Mr., school teacher to the blacks, 176 Morsman's Bay, view from, 80 Mosquito Plains, caves of the, 106 Mount Barker, 106 Mount Baw-Baw eucalypt, height of, 197 Mount Bischoff tin mine, 146 Mount Clay, 67 Mount Franklin, 40 Mount Kosciusko, 20 Mount Lindsay, 96 Mount Lofty range, 103 Mount Wellington, 150 Mountain system, 20 Mouse, marsupial, 181 Mudgee line, New South Wales, 91 Mueller, Baron von, on tea-tree scrub, 200 Murray cod, 193 Murray perch, 193 Murray plains, 67 Murray, river, 21, 100 Musk-tree, 196 Myers, Mr. F. H., on Sydney, 79 NARRAWONG, 67 Nash discovers Gympie gold-field, 130 Native companion, the, 191 Natives, destructiveness of, 23 Nettle-tree, the, 127 New Norfolk, 150 NEW SOUTH WALES: area, 15, 75; population, 15; losses by drought, 25; climate, 76; drought, 76, 94; settlement, 76; Port Jackson, 76; statistics, 79; Sydney, 79; South Coast Railway, 84; Kiama, 87; Great West Railway, 87; Paramatta, 87; Castle Hill, 87; Toongabbie, 87; Blue Mountains, 87; Emu Plains, 88; Penrith, 89; Windsor, 89; Richmond, 89; geology, 90; Blackheath, Mermaid's Cave, 90; Lithgow Vale, 91; Capertee, 91; Mudgee line, 91; Walerawang, 91; Tarana, 91; Fish River caves, 91; Jenola, 91; Bathurst, 93; Blayney, 94; Orange, 94; Forbes, 94; Wellington Valley, 94; Dubbo, 94; cattle, 94; Darling, the, 94; Cohan, 94; Bourke, 94; Bremoroma, 94; Welcanna, 94; Wentworth, 94; Great Northern Railway, 95; Newcastle, 95; Breeza Plains, 95; Richmond, the, 95; Tweed, the, 95; Big Scrub, 95; Cane fields, 96; Great Divide, the, 96; Mount Lindsay, 96; Clarence, the, 96; Nightcap, the, 96 Newcastle, 95 Nightcap, the, New South Wales, 96 Norman, river, 125 Normanton, 125 North Esk, river, 144 Northern Territory, _see_ S. Australia. Northern Trunk Line of Queensland, 123 OAKLEIGH, a suburb of Melbourne, 43 Opossum, 182 Orange, 94 _Ornithorhynchus_, the, 185 Overland Telegraph Line, 108 PALM-LILIES, 202 Palm-trees, 196 Palmer gold-field, 124, 130 Palmerston, mines of, 111 Palmerston and Pine Creek line, 110 Paramatta, 87 Parrots, 185 Parroquets, 186 Peake Telegraph Station, 109 Pearl fisheries of Western Australia, 139 Penrith, 89 Perch, 193 Pérouse, expedition of, 76 Perth, description of, 136 Phillip, Captain Arthur, governor at Port Jackson, 76 Physical geography, 21 Pigeon, bronze-wing, 192 Piping crow, 188 _Pittosporum_, 196 Platypus, 185