What mysterious ceremonies, what awful initiations, have been performed in these “bora” it needs an authority on such things to say. But surely there were never such sanctuaries apart from the sacred groves of Greece, never such temples built by hand, provocative at once of such peace and such reverence—silent, open places of the illimitable forests, carpeted over by the native grasses, which will only grow where the clear light of the sun can penetrate—fit emblem, indeed, of all the virtues. * * * * * * * * * * BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD. NOTES. {232} In Europe the density of the population, or number of persons to the square mile, is 112.58; in Australia it is 147. {298} At the first colonization of Victoria, the number of blacks was estimated to amount to 15,000.