The international geography . to all the marine suburbs, and the port is generallycrowded with coasting vessels and steamers trading to other Australasianports and to the Pacific Islands. From the fact tliat Sydney is circum-scribed by bays and promontories, the streets present an old-world aspect;it possesses noble public buildings, cathedrals, and churches, colossal warehouses, and very fineshops, and the residentialsuburbs are as a rule wellbuilt, the older buildingsgiving place to new andsubstantial edifices, whilethe shores of the harbourbecome more and morepicturesque with the ad-dition
The international geography . to all the marine suburbs, and the port is generallycrowded with coasting vessels and steamers trading to other Australasianports and to the Pacific Islands. From the fact tliat Sydney is circum-scribed by bays and promontories, the streets present an old-world aspect;it possesses noble public buildings, cathedrals, and churches, colossal warehouses, and very fineshops, and the residentialsuburbs are as a rule wellbuilt, the older buildingsgiving place to new andsubstantial edifices, whilethe shores of the harbourbecome more and morepicturesque with the ad-dition of villas and man-sions and private andpublic gardens. Govern-ment House IS situated ina princely domain over-looking Farm Cove, inwhich a man-of-warusually lies at anchor, and adjoining the oldest botanical garden inAustralia. Centennial Park lies on the south side of the city. TheNational Park, a few miles further south, contains 35,000 acres of theloveliest woodland, forest, mountain, and river scenery, and has a frontage. Fig. :5oo.—The Site of Sydney. 6oo The International Geography of eight miles to the Pacific Ocean. One hundred miles west of Sydney,in a deep valley of the Blue Mountains, are the marvellous limestoneJenolan caves, as yet but partially explored. Parmmatia, literally head of the waters, is at the head of the harbour,fourteen miles from the capital. It is the next oldest town in the colony,and, being extensively planted with oaks and other English trees, it isessentially English in its appearance. It possesses orchards and orangeries,which have a world-wide reputation, public buildings, residences of Sydneymerchants, and the homes of many old colonial families. A few miles tothe south, connected by a tramway with the main Southern line, are thesmall towns of Camden, Campbelltown, and Narellan, on the Nepean river,important only from their situation in the midst of the estates of the Mac-arthurs, Macleays, Cowpers, and other founders of Australian wealth a
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