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GIPPSLAND is a province of Victoria. It is bounded by the Australian Alps on all sides except on the south, which the sea washes for over 100 miles. It may be called the Piedmont of Australia, rich fertile plains intersected by rivers flowing into a lake system extending all along the coast, and separated from the sea by a sandy narrow ridge, with one navigable opening. From a local paper, the Gippsland Times, I send the following description of “floating islands” on the lakes.
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AUSTRAL-ALPINE Floating Islands in Victoria . Nature 3, 449 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003449a0
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