Or, to get another focus upon it, it is just 80 times as large as the state of Rhode Island, and one-third as large as the State of Texas.
Outside of Melbourne, Victoria seems to be owned by a handful of squatters, each with a Rhode Island for a sheep farm.

That is the impression which one gathers from common talk, yet the wool industry of Victoria is by no means so great as that of New South Wales.

The climate of Victoria is favorable to other great industries--among others, wheat-growing and the making of wine.
We took the train at Sydney at about four in the afternoon.

It was American in one way, for we had a most rational sleeping car; also the car was clean and fine and new--nothing about it to suggest the rolling stock of the continent of Europe.

But our baggage was weighed, and extra weight charged for.