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 �L As the superlleiai extent of Australia is more than three-fourths of that of Europe,. and the interior may be regarded as unknownS, au theoretic inferences, from the slight geological information hitherto oblained respeetin this great island, are very likely to be deceitful; but among the few facts already ascertained respecting the northern portion of it, there are some which appear to afford a iimpee of eneral structure. Cptaia Fliades, in deseribh I positioa of the ehms of isiads oa the north-wes eost o Oarlataa, Wes- sell's, th Earlish COmlmy's, ud Bromby's Islauds re- mrks, that he had "fequeatly observed a g,vt similarity both in the ground plans, and e elevations of hills, and of islands, in the vicinity of each other, but did not reco!lec$ another instance of such a likeness in the arrangement of clustsrs of islandst." The appearmm which called for this observation, from a voyager of so much sagac/ty and expe- Freyclnet to the principal divisions of the giob.-,-Kob9 Trs-es 4usta/es, p. 107.  ,00,000 . 1' Australia 4,75 The me remote IMints  *he oast  New South Wule o which *he le expeditious have peneffuSed, (and the intepiar has never e been examined in nay other quaar,) are not above 0 mile n a  line, fim tim sea; She average width the island rom easg to wes bein more mn StJO0  and north to south more than 1000 miles. Charts, Plate 4.
 * The .following are th poptoas assigssd by Captain de
 * Fliuders,'v. ii. p. M6; and Ohms, Plates lqsnd 16.--ing

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