CONFIGURATION--THE LAKE COUNTRY--HEAT IN SUMMER--FRUIT--GLENELG--ADELAIDE--MOUNT LOFTY RANGE--PARKS AND BUILDINGS--MOSQUITO PLAIN CAVES--CAMELS--THE OVERLAND TELEGRAPH LINK LINE--PEAKE STATION--THE NORTHERN TERRITORY--EARLY MISFORTUNES--PRESENT PROSPECTS--INSECT LIFE--ALLIGATORS--BUFFALOES. 97-114 _Illustrations_: Overland Telegraph Party 98 Government House and General Post Office, Adelaide 99 Waterfall Gully, South Australia 100 A Murray River Boat 101 Adelaide in 1837 102 King William Street, Adelaide 104 An Adelaide Public School 105 Reaping in South Adelaide 106 Camel Scenes 108 Peake Overland Telegraph Station 109 Collingrove Station, South Australia 111 Sheep in the Shade of a Gum-tree 112 The Botanical Gardens, Adelaide 114 CHAPTER VII. QUEENSLAND. SIZE AND CONFIGURATION--EARLY SETTLEMENT--BRISBANE ISLAND AND COAST TOWNS--GLADSTONE--ROMA--GYMPIE--TOOWOOMBA--TOWNSVILLE-- COOKTOWN--SQUATTING--THE CATTLE STATION--THE SHEEP STATION--THE QUEENSLAND FOREST--THE NETTLE-TREE--SUGAR PLANTING--POLYNESIAN NATIVES--STOPPAGE OF THE LABOUR TRADE--GOLD MINING--THE PALMER--SILVER, TIN, AND COPPER. 115-130 _Illustrations_: Brisbane 116 A Village on Darling Downs 117 Valley of the River Brisbane, Queensland 120 Townsville, North Queensland 124 Sugar Plantation, Queensland 127 CHAPTER VIII. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. EARLY SETTLEMENT--MISTAKEN LAND SYSTEM--CONVICT LABOUR--THE SYSTEM ABANDONED--POISON PLANTS--PERTH--KING GEORGE'S SOUND--CLIMATE--PEARLS--PROSPECTS. 131-140 _Illustrations_: Sheep-Shearing 132 Perth 133 Government House, Perth 137 Albany 139 CHAPTER IX. TASMANIA.