Sorrento occupied by Collins, 38; beauty of, 38 SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Area, 15, 99; population, 15; divisions, 99; Murray, the, 100; scenery, 100; Lake Torrens, 101; Lake Eyre, 101; Lake Gardiner, 101; Lake Amadeus, 101; climate, 101; fruits, 102; Adelaide, 103; Mount Lofty range, 103; industries, 105; wheat, 106; Mount Barker, 106; Caves of the Mosquito Plains, 106; camels at Beltana, 107; Overland Telegraph Line, 108; Peake Telegraph Station, 109; Barrow Creek 'stuck up' at, 109; railway construction, 110; Northern Territory: history, 110; settlement, 111; climate, 112; Roper, the, 111; Macarthy, the, 111; alligators, 113; buffaloes, 113; Black Thursday, 213 South Coast Railway, N. S. Wales, 84 South Esk, river, 144 South Sea Islanders in Queensland, 128 Spinifex, 195 SQUATTERS AND SETTLERS: Description, 203; cattle raising, 204; cutting out, 204; sheep breeding, 205; merino sheep, 206; hospitality, 207; mode of travelling, 207; sheep runs, 207; drought, 208; houses, 208; sheep shearing, 210; carriers, 210; swagmen or sundowners, 210; farming, 211; harvesting system, 211; stripper, the, 211; selecting, mode of, 212; fires, 213; lost in the bush, 217 Staghorn fern, 196 Stanthorpe, 122 Stapleton, Mr., murder of, 110 _Sterculia acerifolia_, 201 Stevenson, falls of the, 72 Stirling, Sir James, in Western Australia, 134 Storms, 22 Strangways Springs, 110 Stripper, the, 211 Stuart, J. M. D., travels of, 110, 161 Sturt's detention at Depôt Glen, 23 Sunday observance, 32 Sundowners, 210 Surrey Hills, a suburb of Melbourne, 43 Swagmen, 210 Swan, black, 191 Swan, river, 135, 138 SYDNEY: harbour, 79; North Shore, 79; view from Morsman's Bay, 80; churches, 80; public buildings, 80; railways, 84 Sydney Cove, 76 TAMAR, river, 144 Tarana, 91 TASMANIA: a holiday resort for Australians, 143; Tamar, the, 144; Launceston, 144; North Esk, the, 144; South Esk, the, 144; Corra Linn, 145; Deloraine, 145; Menada, the, 145; Mersey, the, 145; sheep, 145; Quamby Bluff, 146; Don, the, 146; Cam, the, 146; Forth, the, 146; Mount Bischoff, 146; Waratah, the, 146; Ben Lomond, 147; St. Mary's Pass, 147; Fingal, 147; St. Helen's, 147; macadamised road, the great, 148; Hobart, 150; Derwent, the, 150; Lake St. Clair, 150; Lake Sorell, 150; New Norfolk, 150; convicts at Port Arthur, 151; Eaglebank Neck, 151; D'Entrecasteaux Channel, 151; Heron, the, 151; Macquarie Harbour, 151; area, 151; population, 152; revenue, 152; railways, 152; exports and imports, 152 Taylor, Dr. J. E., on Geology of Emu Plains, 90 Tea-tree scrub, 200