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15 CHAPTER II. Road to Adelaide — Farm houses—New vegetable world—Town of Adelaide—Rival townships—The small lot system—Signs of improvement — Society in Adelaide — Politics. From Holdfast Bay, where it has been proposed to erect a township, by the name of Glenelg, the distance to Ade laide is seven miles. The road passes over a level plain, well covered, in the cool season of the year, with grass, and intersected by belts of wood. Here there was a half-way house, for the accommodation of the numerous bullock-drivers, sailors, and other passengers, between Adelaide and the Bay; and a well had been sunk through a bed of reddish diluvial earth, and good water obtained at a depth of twelve feet. On either side of the road I remarked some farm houses, with a neat and comfort able aspect; and the cattle grazing on the plain appeared to be in excellent condition. The impressions created by a new aspect of nature will afford excitement and interest to him who tra verses, for the first time, this level and, but too often, dusty road. The foliage of the shrubs and trees is ever green, and their orders and species entirely different from those of Europe. The eucalyptus extends its straggling branches and its dark foliage. The casuarina droops its