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Excerpt from The Progress and Resources of New South Wales Of the estimated area of Australia square miles), New South Wales includes square miles, or less than one-tenth of the entire surface. Its eastern boundary, extending from Cape Howe in 37 Degrees 28' to Point Danger in 280 10' south latitude, is washed by the Pacific Ocean. Queensland bounds the Colony on the north, South Australia on the west, and Victoria on the south west. The coast line is formed of rugged promontories, rounded bays, and precipitous cliffs of sandstone. The indentations are nowhere strongly marked, but there are numerous capacious harbours for shipping, some of them almost unrivalled for their facility of access, their great extent, natural beauty, and perfect safety. Of these, Port Jackson, on whose shores the city of Sydney has been built, is pre-eminent; and that of Newcastle, at the mouth of the Hunter River, is as well known, by reason of its large coal trade in the southern hemisphere, as is newcastle-upon-tyne in the northern. Among other. Commodious havens for shipping, Twofold Bay and Jervis Bay, to the south of Sydney, may be named; and to the north of it are Broken Bay, Port Stephens, Trial Bay, the estuaries of the Clarence, the Richmond, the Manning, and other rivers. Sand-bars occur near the entrances to most of the rivers, but the impediments which exist to navigation are such as may be removed by the construction of breakwaters and by the employ ment of dredges whenever the exigencies of the local trade shall justify the carrying out of such improvements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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