The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 408 AUSTEALASIA. development of the colonies, is produced in the largest quantities in New South Wales. Here also coal mining, and several other less important industries are far more developed than elsewhere, and the claim to the hegemony among the surrounding political groups seems strengthened even by priority in point of time. Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and New Zealand were, moreover, to a great extent founded by settlers from New South Wales, and the very spot already indicated by Cook h
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 408 AUSTEALASIA. development of the colonies, is produced in the largest quantities in New South Wales. Here also coal mining, and several other less important industries are far more developed than elsewhere, and the claim to the hegemony among the surrounding political groups seems strengthened even by priority in point of time. Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and New Zealand were, moreover, to a great extent founded by settlers from New South Wales, and the very spot already indicated by Cook has thus become the true centre of the Australasian colonial world. The site chosen in 1788 as the first convict station at the antipodes of Great Fig. 175.—Botany Bat. Scale 1 : 160,000. Land exposed at low water. 0 to5 Fathoms. Depths. 5 to 25 Fathoms. 26 to 100 Fathoms. 100 Fathoms and upwards. .3 Miles. Britain still remains unoccupied by a town of any size. The shores of Botany Bay, whose name was long applied to the aggregate of the British possessions in Australia, are dotted round only by a few small watering places and scattered villas, which already form part of the environs of Sydney. The approach to the harbour is indicated by the monument to Cook, who discovered this bay in 1770 ; farther north stands the statue of Laperouse, who sailed in 1788 from this spot on the last expedition, from which he never returned. The names of Banks and Solander given to the two headlands facing each other on either side of the channel also perpetuate the memory of illustrious pioneers in the work of Australian discovery. If the inlet described in glowing colours by these first explorers has
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