The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . r is so inexpressiblylovely that it makes a man ask himself whether it would not be worth his while to movehis household goods to the eastern coast of Australia, in order that he might look at itas long as he can look at anything. The sea runs up in various bays or coves, indentingthe land all around the city, .so as to give a thousand different aspects of the water: andnot of water broad, unbroken, and unrelieved, but of water always with jutting cornersof land
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . r is so inexpressiblylovely that it makes a man ask himself whether it would not be worth his while to movehis household goods to the eastern coast of Australia, in order that he might look at itas long as he can look at anything. The sea runs up in various bays or coves, indentingthe land all around the city, .so as to give a thousand different aspects of the water: andnot of water broad, unbroken, and unrelieved, but of water always with jutting cornersof land beyond it, and then again of water, and then again of land.* Australian scenery—and among it that of New South Wales—bears iio high reputation among that portionof the world who travel in search of the picturesque. The everlasting gum-tree is acommon phrase which represents the wearisomeness with its sameness. But in the Alpineregions, along the banks of the llawkesbury, and in many other parts of the colony (p. IT^) • Sec also Burton: Visitors Guide to Sydney (Sydney, 1874); and Illustrated Sydney News, March16th, ISO THE COrXTKIES OF TirE AVOKLT). —not to speak o£ Sydney Harbour—there is some really be:mtitul and even striking scenery,wliich the Austi-alians themselves little know of, and which, tliureldrf, they cannot exjiectvisitors, who ofton leave in ignorance of their existence, to grow gushing over. CHAPTER XI. Australia: The Coloxy of Vutouia. Tin; first part of the now colony of Nictoria sighted hy Cook was probably the presentCape Conran, or Cape Kverard, hi Gipps Land. This was on tlie IJth of April, 1770.*Twenty-eight years afterwards Western Port was discovered by Surgeon Bass. In 180:JPort Phillip was entered; next year an unsuccessful attempt was made to colonise it by aparty of convicts under Colonel Collins. The country was, however, soon abandoned,under the belief that it was unfit for settlement. Nearly twenty years passed awaybefore Hume
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