{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
.Nt.c it1ilan2.-Thc anomalous charac-
ter Of New Holland is strikingly illustrated
IN the following extract from "Gcographical
Memoirs Q! New South Wales, by Barron
Field, Esq"


but this is New Holland, where il is sum.
mcf with US when it is winter in Europe and
rice perSa; where the barometer rises before
bad weather and fills before good; where the
North is lot, and the South cold; where the
humaiest house is iittedu up with ced II &C. Dire.
Ia toona, according to Mr.. Rrown;) where the
fields arc fenced with mahogany (eucalyptus
robusta,) and myrtle trees are burnt for. fire
wood: where tile swans are black and the
eagles white; where the Kangaroo, an ami
NAL between the squirrel and the deer, has
five claws on its fore paws, and three talons
on IT'S hind leg, like bird, and yet hops on
its tail; where the mole (ornithorhynchus
paradoxus) lays eggs and has a ducks bill
where there is a bird (meiiphaga) with a
broom in its mouth instead Of !. tongue;
where there is Il fish, one matt b. longing to
the genus zaia; and the other to that of