Excerpt from A Tramp to the Diggings: Being Notes of a Ramble in Australia and New Zealand in 1852 The Continent of New Holland, or Australia, is 2400 miles from east to west, and 2600 the greatest breadth from north to south, having an area of square miles. The principal divisions of it are Eastern Australia, or New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, and North Australia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.