The Wrangell sentinel., 1921-11-03

east and southeast edges, with patch on the extreme southwest corner and another covering most of the island of Tasmania. In these regions the people live.
 The trade winds abundantly supply water beyond the westerlies, the roaring forties" of the sailor, deposit their moisture on the lands along Bass strait and on the southwest tip of the continent. but have little or none to carry inland. The north coast is al- ternately drenched and dried with the coming and going of monsoons. The center of the continent is therefore arid. large parts are desert, and the numerous large lakes shown on the with water by infrequent rains. Aus tralia's streams are fewer and carry less water than those of any other continent.
 Its Forests Are Surprising.
 The flora of Australia is not only beautiful, 1t is unique. having no counterpart in other lands. Of the 10000 species of plants most of them are purely Australian, and are un- known even in New Zealand. The gen. eral impression one gets of Australian forests is their total unlikeness to any thing seen elsewhere. Forms which 1nN haa iya1 'aG t1r1fr Suckle and fern take on q surprising aspect. They are not garden flowers, but trees. and the landscape of which they form part reminds one of the hypothetical representations ill books of landscape of A1esozoic time, q pe- riod antedating our OWL by millions of years
 The impression that one is looking at landscape which has forever dis appeared from other parts of the world is so vivid that the elms and naples and oaks in some of the city streets strike jarring note. The transition from Jurassic to modern times is painfully abrupt.
 The animals of Australia. too. are % distinct from the rest of the world that some have proposed two great zoological realms: Australian and non Australian. The peculiarity lies not only ill the fact that Australian types are not found elsewhere, but also that families like the cats and the pigs which are found native on all other continents and on many islands. are absent from Australia. The kangaroo is Australia's national animal. and the group to which it belongs, the mar supials, is typically Australian.
 A belt of country 100 miles wide along the east, south and southwest edges of Australia would include prob ably 80 per cent of the commonWealth's population. There are no inland cities of over 10000 population, except six mining camps, and the most remote If these is about as far from the sea as is Pittsburgh.
 striking feature of the Australian census is the concentration of popula lion in cities-a phenOmenal situation IDf dIi deliCuItuIdl anu lJttSlD uI lld- tion with less than l per cent of it's area under cultivation and 1T per cent unoccup!ed. The six Australian state capitals inc''.'le 3S.S0 per cent of the commonweaitl-s population. and five of theil are growing at the 'eXpensa Of the back country. No other nation. ind few states. can match these fig ures.
 white Australia" is the settled policy of the commonwealth govern lnent. the immigration laws being so administered as effectually to exclude colored races. Legislation is directed particularly to the exclusion of Chinese. Japanese and Polynesian la bor, not only from the land, but from employment in pearl fishing, coastwise shipping. and on overseas steamers holding mail contracts.