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Western Australia

The following are the more important available statistics: Area, square miles, 975,920 Population, 43,332 Revenue, $1,785,015 Expenditure, 1,925,900 Imports, Exports, 4,090,635 3,806,960 EUROPE.

Europe is, with the exception of Australia, the smallest of the 6 great divisions of the globe, and although in fact only a great peninsula of the Asiatic continent, it has been considered for 2500 years as a distinct continent. Nothing whatever is known of the etymology of the name, which was formerly applied to a much more limited area than at present. Although it borrowed its languages, religions, and philosophies from the adjoining continent of Asia, from which also it was largely peopled, Europe has become the arbiter of civilization; and while Africa has remained for thousands of years sunken, degraded, and barbaric, and the earlier civilization of China and Hindustan has retrograded rather than progressed, Europe has attained the proudest position. From its maritime countries went forth the expeditions which discovered the immense continent of America and founded a new empire at the Antipodes. Its march of triumph within the past 400 years has resulted in the distribution of its peoples over the whole world. All of America and Australia, Northern Asia. Hindustan, vast tracts of the African continent, and the countless islands of the seas, have received from enterprising Europeans civilization, laws, and government. rect.