. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . e capital and chief port of New SouthWales, is the oldest and largest town in Australia. Ithas a magnificent position on Port Jackson (see ), an almost landlocked deep inlet with a narrowentrance. Since it has become the centre of the statesrailway system it has greatly increased in importance,as will readily be seen from a list of its chief arc wool, frozen and preserved meats, butter,hides and skins, leather, wheat and flour, gold, etc. Itwill be seen that these are rc|)rcsentative of all thenatura
. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . e capital and chief port of New SouthWales, is the oldest and largest town in Australia. Ithas a magnificent position on Port Jackson (see ), an almost landlocked deep inlet with a narrowentrance. Since it has become the centre of the statesrailway system it has greatly increased in importance,as will readily be seen from a list of its chief arc wool, frozen and preserved meats, butter,hides and skins, leather, wheat and flour, gold, etc. Itwill be seen that these are rc|)rcsentative of all thenatural regions of the state. The great barriers to the < VICTORIA 533 making of railways were the steep slopes and clifficultvalleys of the eastern scarps of the Blue Mountains. Awinding road and a zigzag railway, and later a tunnel,overcame these difficulties and Sydney was connectedby rail with Bathurst. Notice the line to Bourkey agreat stock-rearing centre at the head of the navi^^ationof the Darling, and also the branch to Cobar, thecopper-mining town (see Fig. 143).. Fig. 144.—The position of Sydney. VICTORIA. Victoria, the smallest state in the Commonwealth,has the largest number of inhabitants per square mile,although this only amounts to fifteen. It may bedivided into the following natural regions. 1. A north-western grassland. 2. An eastern highlands region. 3. A Mediterranean region. 4. A small eastern warm temperate belt. 534 AUSTRALASIA 1. The first region is devoted to sheep-rearing, exceptin those parts which have been cleared of mallee scruband are now devoted to wheat-growing. Large sumshave been spent upon this clearing work, and upon theconstruction of dams across the rivers in order to holdup water for use on the fields. This is necessary be-cause Victoria is outside the artesian-well area. Despitethe dry conditions which obtain in the north-westernplains about nine-tenths of the wheat output of Victoriacomes from there, especially from the irrigated Wimuier
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