Isles of the East : an illustrated guide : Australia, New Guinea, Java, Sumatra . K. Steamer van Linschoteuleaving: Sydney Harbor, 47. Katoomba Falls, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. 48 delicate dripstones of hues graduating from lemon yellow to the colour ofripe apricots, and from the deepest chocolate to the most stainless white,which depend from the ceilings, while fluted stalagmites, some as slenderas the finest wire, others fifty feet in circumference, rise from the floor. Within an hours train journey of Sydnev, the capital, the touristfinds himself in the heart of the upland fores
Isles of the East : an illustrated guide : Australia, New Guinea, Java, Sumatra . K. Steamer van Linschoteuleaving: Sydney Harbor, 47. Katoomba Falls, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. 48 delicate dripstones of hues graduating from lemon yellow to the colour ofripe apricots, and from the deepest chocolate to the most stainless white,which depend from the ceilings, while fluted stalagmites, some as slenderas the finest wire, others fifty feet in circumference, rise from the floor. Within an hours train journey of Sydnev, the capital, the touristfinds himself in the heart of the upland forests of the world-renownedBlue Mountain Range. The scenery here is of rare magnificence. Therarefied atmosphere makes the whole region a marvellous countless teons of time the rivers at the brink of the tablelandhave carved out stupendous gorges, comparable only with the famouscanyons of Colorado. The traveller over the Blue Mountains carriesaway abiding memories of graceful cascades and waterfalls leaping fromgiant cliffs, or splashing over boulders through dense fern-clad bowers,gleaming rock-walls of enormous heig
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