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Excerpt from Greater Britain, Vol. 2 of 2: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866 and 1867
New South Wales and Victoria mainly democratic. Had Australia and New Zealand been close together, instead of as far apart as Africa and South America, there could have been no political connexion between them so long as the traditions of their first settle ment endured. Not only is the name Australasia politically meaningless, however, but it is also geo graphically incorrect, for New Zealand and Australia are as completely separated from each other as Great Britain and Massachusetts. No promontory of Aus tralia runs out to within miles of any New Zealand cape; the distance between Sydney and Wellington is miles; from Sydney to Auck land is as far. The distance from the nearest point of New Zealand of Tasman's peninsula, which itself projects somewhat from Tasmania, is greater than that of London from Algiers from Wellington to Sydney, opposite ports, is as far as from Manchester to Iceland, or from Africa to Brazil.
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