The sunshine warms the clean from] sands of endless beaches thronged with bronzed battalions of bathers, youth and beauty at their best, shoot-ug the breakers, riding on surf boards, or lying on the sands court-ug the sun. Here is sea-bathing on 'a scale unequalled elsewhere in the world. Each capital city possesses its miles of beaches conveniently close at hand, and beyond the beaches stretches the sea, emerald-green in the shallows, a deep blue beyond, wine-irk on the horizon, creaming white with the breakers, and all sparkling with countless points of light under the southern sun, The visitor must, of course, Ast make acquaintance with the capital cities of the States lying on the seaboard—modern cities all, two with' populations of over 1,000,000, and. each a thriving centre of business and industry, with miles of sunlit beach and ' mountain playground. Perth, the western gateway to the continent, to which visitors sailing from the Old World first come, rises above the wide blue stretches of Melville and Perth Waters, with the blue ranges beyond, in a truly beautiful"setting; gold and wheat and timber are in the background. Adel~ ide Ties on a level plain between the picturesque Int. Lofty Ranges and the sapphire waters of Gulf St. Vincent, a city of churches, park lands and wide boulevards set down amid orange and olive groves and vineyards on the adjacent foothill Then comes Melbourne with its bustling, broad, tree-lined and symmetrically-planned, streets and boule-yards, its tall, clean buildings and far-flung garden suburbs, its miles of curving benches round the huge Port Phillip Bay, and its lovely hill country in the nearby Dandenongs.
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