Thamanampalli Surekha

almost essential features in the character of the successful colonist in Australia. There he must strip off his coat and put his "shoulder to the wheel" willingly, and commence the "battle of life" on that field of action as if he was just beginning the world anew. This done, we will guarantee that he will sleep soundly over his determination, and rise refreshed under its influence, his eye beaming with hope as he looks towards the promised land. Every man, therefore, should have a clear perception of what his intentions are upon arrival, to trust entirely to circumstances is to lean upon a broken reed. Proceeding along the beach for about a couple of miles from the landing in a southerly direction you come to St. Kilda, a pleasant spot, with some agreeable residues on its rising ground, facing the shipping in the bay. It is scarcely large enough to be considered a township. Brighton, however, two miles further on, has more pretensions to that title. Like its well-known progenitor in England, it is the resort of the townspeople for the luxury of bathing quarters. Here the wealthy inhabitants of Melbourne have a pleasant retreat from the dust and heat of the city. The road to it is not by the beach, as we have supposed the reader to understand, but by a tolerably good road a considerably distance to the left of it, through some very agreeable open forest-land. These suburban residues inform the stranger who visits the Australian shores, more than all the wonderful strides of the busy towns, of the quite yet firm manner in which the Anglo-Saxon race takes root in these colonies, that there is in them a determination to rear up the homely institutions of their fatherland, and to live and die on the soil of their adopted country. The road from Melbourne to Geelong-The steamboat route-An Australian breakfast-The outer harbour of Geelong-Anchorage for English ships-Corio Boy-Character of the surrounding scenery-Appearance of the town of Geelong-Advantageous site-population-South Geelong-Barrabool hills-Suburbs of Geelong- Warnambool-Belfast-Portland-Position of Geelong as an out -port-Working of the Ballarat gold-fields-Tabular statement-Prospects for the educated classes-Fruits to be won by perseverance-A gold inheritance for the British race. The traveller proceeding from Melbourne to Geelong has the choice of two routes. one by land along an uninteresting road, the other by water, making a pleasant trip of it in a statement. The distance by the road is fifty-four measured miles, by water, as the steamboat makes the voyage, it is somewhat less. On reference to the map, it will be seen that both routes skirt the north-west shore of the great estuary of Port Philip, and make the half-circuit of Coria Bay. there is not traffic on the road, and we aware not aware that there is any public conveyance between the two places. The road for the greater part of the way is over a desolate-looking plain, destitute of trees and shrubs, and scantily covered with grass, and like the land about Williamstown, there is a great scarcity of water. At the Werribee River, about half-way, and the Little River, within eighteen miles of Geelong, both of which are dry watercourses for the greater part of the year, there are two indifferent inns. From this very uninviting state of the road, therefore few people form Melbourne travel by land to Geelong, and when the settlers from the Portland Bay district require to visit the metropolis of Victoria, they ride to Geelong on horseback, where they leave their horses, and proceed by steamboat to the city. One bright sunny morning we took our passage on board the Vesta steamboat at Melbourne for Geelong. This vessel is a small iron boat, having two engines, each of fifteen-horse power, she was important from England upwards of twelve years ago, and was brought to the colony in pieces. We started from the Queen's Wharf punctually at seven o' clock, and reached Geelong at half-past twelve, making the voyage in five hours and a half, including a stoppage at Williamstown of half an hour. This little vessel is well commanded by Captain Wetheridge, and has every comfort and convenience on board that the most fastidious passenger could wish for, and would bear comparision with the best river-boats in the United Kingdom. While proceeding down the rived, we partook heartily of a substantial breakfast on board, served up in the best style and at a reasonable charge. As we looked around the breakfast-table upon our fellow-passengers, we could not but observe with what keen appetites they dispatched the savoury dishes of pork-chops, grilled fowls, beefsteaks smothered in onions, accompained by hot potatoes, which composed this early meal, but for the tea and coffee, we should have supposed it dinner instead of breakfast. The quantity of animal food consumed in this country is extraordinary, almost every one eats meat three times a day. In the hottest weather too it seems to make no difference, where in other countries the appetite refuses to attack animal food in the summer, and yet no bad effects upon the general health of the community from this cause have been perceived. it would appear as if the invisible secretions of the body, which the dry warm atmosphere of Australia absorbs so abundantly, require a large amount of string nourishing food to reproduce them and keep up the system-not the attenuated frame of the aborigine, but that partly figure which the Englishman loves to display.