This column is nearly seventy feet high, and some ten feet square at the base.

It represents exactly the bulk of gold which Australia has sent to this country since 1851, and which in all amounts to nearly 800 tons.
Valuing the precious metal at its ascertainable worth, it appears that gold to the value of upwards of L15,000 sterling was dug from the bowels of the earth, washed from the sand of the rivers, or discovered by fortunate diggers in various parts of Australia in a single year.
The interior of Australia is still comparatively unknown.

Last year an expedition was undertaken to discover a way across the Continent, and entrusted to a vigilant and enterprising commander named Burke.

Although a certain amount of success attended the object of the expedition, the fate of Burke and his immediate companions was most deplorable.

They perished by starvation! CONCLUSION.
I have now told you all that my present limits will admit, of those interesting portions of the globe, called America and Australia, and I wish you to read again all that I have said, and I wish you also to view the inhuman conduct of the first discoverers of the former with proper feelings of aversion.