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belonging to Australasia, even less is known than 
of New Holland, excepting New Zealand, in which 
is an extensive English colony, and which is a 
very beautiful and fertile country. But of Papua, 
or New Guinea, which lies to the north of N ew 
Holland, we do not even know the size, no one 
having yet sailed all round it. "The barbarian 
people who inhabit it have given their name to a 
race called from them the Papuan, They are as 
frightful in person as savage in their habits; and 
from their extremeferocity, it must be diffeult for 
Europeans to make a settlement, either in New 
Guinea, or any of the surrounding islands. The 
plants and animalspeculiar to Australasia are very 
unlike those found in other parts of the world, and 
some of them are exceedingly curious, In a future 
lesson you will hear more about them. 
LESSON XLIX. 
SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL. 
From Greenland’s icy mountaina, 
From India’s coral strand, 
Where Afric’s sunny fountains 
Roll down their golden sand; 
From many an ancient river, 
From many a palmy plain, 
They call us to deliver 
Their land from error’s chain. 
What though the spicy breezes 
Blow soft on Ceylon’s isle, 
Though every prospect pleases, 
And only man is vile,