The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 396 AUSTRALASIA. spaces from the other Australasian colonies, with which it communicates only by sea. The dangerous overland routes across the intervening solitudes still rank with those rare and daring exploits which are recorded in the annals of geographical exploration. The centre of the colony is the city of Perth, which has been founded 12 miles from the coast on the banks of the Swan River, at a point where it expands into Fig. 170.—Perth and its Envieons. Scale 1 : 600,000. bep hs 0 to 3
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 396 AUSTRALASIA. spaces from the other Australasian colonies, with which it communicates only by sea. The dangerous overland routes across the intervening solitudes still rank with those rare and daring exploits which are recorded in the annals of geographical exploration. The centre of the colony is the city of Perth, which has been founded 12 miles from the coast on the banks of the Swan River, at a point where it expands into Fig. 170.—Perth and its Envieons. Scale 1 : 600,000. bep hs 0 to 32 Feet. 32 to SO Feet. 80 to 160 Feet. 12 Miles. 160 Feet and upwards. the form of a lake. This modest capital is connected by road and rail with its seaport of Fremantle, which lies on the south side of the Swan estuary ; but there is no natural harbour and the open roadstead is so unsafe during the prevalence of the north and north-west winds that the shipping has at times to take refuge farther south in Cockburn Sound between the coast and Garden Island. Never- theless, Fremantle is the busiest port in the colony, and here are shipped the
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