ultivation equals 3,500,000 acres, with
52,000,000 sheep, 6,700,000 cattle, 850,000 horses, 500,000 hogs, 2092
miles of railway and 21,000 miles of telegraph.

The collection from New South Wales contains a large exhibit of the
mineral, animal and vegetable productions of the land--auriferous quartz
and gold nuggets, tin ores and ingots, copper, coal, antimony and fossils.
New South Wales prides herself especially on the surpassing quality of her
wools and on the extent of her pastoral husbandry, the number of sheep
being 25,269,755 in 1876, of cattle over 3,000,000, and of horses 366,000.
The exportation of wool in 1876 was alone equal to $28,000,000. Then,
again, she shows gums, furs, stuffed marsupials, wools, textiles, wheat
and tobacco, also many books, photographs, maps and other evidences of the
intellectual life of the people.

Victoria has so far progressed in riches and civilization that it has
turned its back upon the past, and shows principally its wheat, skins,
paraffine, wine, gold, antimony, lead, iron, tin, coal, timber, cloth and
a large range of productions which have little peculiar about them, but
are interesting in showing what a country of 88,198 square miles, with a
population of 224 persons in 1836, can attain to in forty years. It has
now 840,300 inhabitants, and exports over $56,000,000 annually. Its total
production of gold is about L200,000,000 sterling. Though one of the
smallest colonies on the mainland, it is about equal in population to
three-fourths of the sum of all the others, and its largest town,
Melbourne, with a population of 265,000, is said to be the ninth city of
the British world. Passing by the evidences of prosperity and
enterprise--which are, however, nothing but what ordinary retail houses
would show--we pause for a while at the excellent collection of native
tools and implements, and the weapons employed in war and the chase by the
aboriginal inhabitants--wooden spears of the grass tree, and, among many
others barbed for fishing and variously notched for war, one which does
not belong to Australia, but has evidently been brought from the
Philippines, and should not have been included. The same might be said of
several Fijian clubs and a Marquesas spear barbed with sharks' teeth,
which are well enough in their way, but not Victorian. The collection of
shields, clubs and boomerangs is good and is highly prized, as they are
becoming scarce in the colony, but the types prevail