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Aden (GULF OF South Australian)

GULF OF South Australian Institute, with museum, rising to 1,776 feet. It is joined to the library and art galleries; hospitals; an mainland by a narrow, level, and sandy extensive botanical garden; etc. The isthmus. The town is on the eastern chief manufactures are woolen, leather, iron, and earthenware goods; but the chief importance of Adelaide depends on its being the great emporium for South Australia. Wool, wine, wheat, flour and copper ore are the staple articles of export. There are a number of colleges and Adelaide University and a school shore of the peninsula, stands in the crater of an extinct volcano, and is surrounded by barren, cinder-like rocks. The main crater is known as the Devil's Punch-bowl. Frequently the heat is intense; but the very dry, hot climate, though depressing, is unusually healthy for the tropics. The Romans occupied of mines. It is the seat of an Anglican it in the 1st century A. D. Till the disand of a Roman Catholic bishop. Glenelg, on the sea, 5 miles away, is a favorite watering place. Pop., with suburbs, about 250,000. Port Adelaide, its port, dates from 1840. It is a principal port of call for vessels arriving from Europe.