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The
spurs
of
some
low
hills
were
skirted
at
the
boundary
of
Talbot
County
,
and
in
the
evening
the
travelers
reached
a
point
about
three
miles
from
Maryborough
.
The
fine
rain
was
falling
,
which
,
in
any
other
country
,
would
have
soaked
the
ground
;
but
here
the
air
absorbed
the
moisture
so
wonderfully
that
the
camp
did
not
suffer
in
the
least
.
Next
day
,
the
29th
of
December
,
the
march
was
delayed
somewhat
by
a
succession
of
little
hills
,
resembling
a
miniature
Switzerland
.
It
was
a
constant
repetition
of
up
and
down
hill
,
and
many
a
jolt
besides
,
all
of
which
were
scarcely
pleasant
.
The
travelers
walked
part
of
the
way
,
and
thought
it
no
hardship
.
At
eleven
o'clock
they
arrived
at
Carisbrook
,
rather
an
important
municipality
.
Ayrton
was
for
passing
outside
the
town
without
going
through
it
,
in
order
,
he
said
,
to
save
time
.
Glenarvan
concurred
with
him
,
but
Paganel
,
always
eager
for
novelties
,
was
for
visiting
Carisbrook
.
They
gave
him
his
way
,
and
the
wagon
went
on
slowly
.
Paganel
,
as
was
his
custom
,
took
Robert
with
him
.
His
visit
to
the
town
was
very
short
,
but
it
sufficed
to
give
him
an
exact
idea
of
Australian
towns
.
There
was
a
bank
,
a
court-house
,
a
market
,
a
church
,
and
a
hundred
or
so
of
brick
houses
,
all
exactly
alike
.
The
whole
town
was
laid
out
in
squares
,
crossed
with
parallel
streets
in
the
English
fashion
.
Nothing
could
be
more
simple
,
nothing
less
attractive
.
As
the
town
grows
,
they
lengthen
the
streets
as
we
lengthen
the
trousers
of
a
growing
child
,
and
thus
the
original
symmetry
is
undisturbed
.
Carisbrook
was
full
of
activity
,
a
remarkable
feature
in
these
towns
of
yesterday
.
It
seems
in
Australia
as
if
towns
shot
up
like
trees
,
owing
to
the
heat
of
the
sun
.
Men
of
business
were
hurrying
along
the
streets
;
gold
buyers
were
hastening
to
meet
the
in-coming
escort
;
the
precious
metal
,
guarded
by
the
local
police
,
was
coming
from
the
mines
at
Bendigo
and
Mount
Alexander
.
All
the
little
world
was
so
absorbed
in
its
own
interests
,
that
the
strangers
passed
unobserved
amid
the
laborious
inhabitants
.
After
an
hour
devoted
to
visiting
Carisbrook
,
the
two
visitors
rejoined
their
companions
,
and
crossed
a
highly
cultivated
district
.
Long
stretches
of
prairie
,
known
as
the
"
Low
Level
Plains
,
"
next
met
their
gaze
,
dotted
with
countless
sheep
,
and
shepherds
'
huts
.
And
then
came
a
sandy
tract
,
without
any
transition
,
but
with
the
abruptness
of
change
so
characteristic
of
Australian
scenery
.
Mount
Simpson
and
Mount
Terrengower
marked
the
southern
point
where
the
boundary
of
the
Loddon
district
cuts
the
144th
meridian
.
As
yet
they
had
not
met
with
any
of
the
aboriginal
tribes
living
in
the
savage
state
.
Glenarvan
wondered
if
the
Australians
were
wanting
in
Australia
,
as
the
Indians
had
been
wanting
in
the
Pampas
of
the
Argentine
district
;
but
Paganel
told
him
that
,
in
that
latitude
,
the
natives
frequented
chiefly
the
Murray
Plains
,
about
one
hundred
miles
to
the
eastward
.
"
We
are
now
approaching
the
gold
district
,
"
said
he
,
"
in
a
day
or
two
we
shall
cross
the
rich
region
of
Mount
Alexander
.
It
was
here
that
the
swarm
of
diggers
alighted
in
1852
;
the
natives
had
to
fly
to
the
interior
.
We
are
in
civilized
districts
without
seeing
any
sign
of
it
;
but
our
road
will
,
before
the
day
is
over
,
cross
the
railway
which
connects
the
Murray
with
the
sea
.
Well
,
I
must
confess
,
a
railway
in
Australia
does
seem
to
me
an
astonishing
thing
!
"
"
And
pray
,
why
,
Paganel
?
"
said
Glenarvan
.
"
Why
?
because
it
jars
on
one
's
ideas
.
Oh
!
I
know
you
English
are
so
used
to
colonizing
distant
possessions
.
You
,
who
have
electric
telegraphs
and
universal
exhibitions
in
New
Zealand
,
you
think
it
is
all
quite
natural
.
But
it
dumb-founders
the
mind
of
a
Frenchman
like
myself
,
and
confuses
all
one
's
notions
of
Australia
!
"
