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the pages of "The Compleat Angler" will gather from that fascinating delightful book the charm & spirit of the natural scenery in whi about our encampment;. The only tracts tracts of country in Australia that to my knowledge resembles it are situated along the banks of the Hawkesbury river in the vicinity of Windsor & Richmond. On the Wiltshire downs graze some of the finest cattle I have ever seen; but the smallness of the heard herds is very noticeable, particularly to a Queenslander who is used to viewing surveying them in herds of five hundreds & thousands. The flocks of sheep are also very small. Those I have seen were kept mostly in folds & did not appear to be so hardy as some sheep I saw in Scotland rooting up the snow to get at the grass. The draught horses