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  2. The Naturalist.

    THIS is a family of birds distributed over almost every portion of the globe. They are most numerous in the tropical or semi-tropical regions of the earth. In Europe, one species ...

    Article : 1,513 words
  3. Scientific and Useful.

    WHERE can we find a better example of the ignorance of "practical men" than that as given in the invention of the telescope, and its practical application by Galileo; and its opposition by the ...

    Article : 1,493 words
  4. Navigating Torres Straits.

    Now that Thursday Island has been selected for the new Torres Straits settlement, it is probable that Somerset, always languishing, will become extinct, as it does not lie in the direct ...

    Article : 1,604 words
  5. The Sketcher.

    "SEVEN years with hard labor" I have put in hers. Mind yon, I am no convict, only a small bone in the vertebrse of this great and glorious country. Perhaps you do not understand me. I ...

    Article : 2,105 words
  6. Life at the Palmer.

    A GENTLEMAN who is described by the Cooktown Herald as "a most practical mining engineer," sends a long communication to that journal in which there is nothing of "mining" ...

    Article : 468 words
  7. To the west of Cardwell.

    WE are debarred from using our back country owing to want of roads. The coast range is our bugbear, and as yet no natural roads have been discovered over it, though several tracks have ...

    Article : 1,125 words
  8. Keeping up Appearances.

    OUR New Zealand correspondent says:— The greater number of our nine Provincial Parliaments are out of session, and the big Parliament does not meet until the middle of ...

    Article : 1,728 words
  9. The Vile Mosquito.

    THE New York Herald observes:—The mosquitoes seem to be ubiquitous just now, if we are to judge from the complaints of our correspondents; but we really don't know what to ...

    Article : 920 words
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