id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt nyp.33433082451828 Thomson, James Illustrated handbook of Victoria, Australia 1886 .txt text/plain 49599 2802 71 The following are the quoted prices of the principal articles of consumption, also of live stock, in Melbourne during the year 1885. contain land of the same kind, and all over the colony a large proportion of the The fine-woolled merino sheep, the horse stock, the fattening cattle, and the dairy cows, all thrive throughout the year without shelter Government Land.—The colony of Victoria is about 56,250,000 acres colonies, New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria, have given much near the South Australian border, where the range slopes down to the lowlying, nearly level, country of which the western margin of Victoria, from Australian colonies to demonstrate to the world that merino wool of exceptional fineness, length of staple, softness, and lustre, could be grown in large sheep bred in Victoria grew wool of quite a different character to that produced by Tasmanian or New South Wales flocks. ./cache/nyp.33433082451828.pdf ./txt/nyp.33433082451828.txt