South Australia has Western Australia on one side and Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria on the other. Originally it lay between 132° and 141° E. long., extending only to 26° S. lat. Inclusive of the Northern Territory, it now crosses the continent between 129° and 141° E., being 1850 miles in length. The present area is 903,690 sq. m. (of which the Northern Territory contains 523,620), or more than fifteen times the size of England and Wales. Less barren than Western Australia, it has not the fertility of the eastern colonies, from want of sufficient rain. Two dry peninsulas, Yorke and Lincoln, or Eyria, point southward, enclosing two great inlets—Spencer's Gulf and Gulf St Vincent. Kangaroo Island lies between. A chain of mountains runs from the south-east up to the Lake District depression. Ranges, with outliers, are seen right across to, and through, the Northern Territory; but few points rise to 3000 feet: Lofty, near Adelaide, is 2300 feet. The Murray River of eastern Australia has its mouth in South Australia. Torrens, by Adelaide, and a few other short streams reach the
