Australian Gossip and Story (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Australian Gossip and Story The most wonderful city in the world is Sydney. It is the capital of New South Wales, and our colony has an area of 310, 700 square miles, being a little over two-and-a-half times the size of Great Britain and Ireland. New South Wales is, roughly, 680 miles long and 760 miles wide. Our harbour has a water surface 15 square miles, and a shore line of 165 miles. Sydney and its suburbs occupy an area of 141 square miles, and the population numbers about 420, 000 souls. In 1788 the first settlement was made in Port Jackson, as our harbour is called, and the city of Sydney was founded January 26 of that year. The Constitution Act was proclaimed on July 16th, 1855, and the first representative Parliament was opened on May 22nd, 1856. Since that time the progress of the colony has been enormous, and the views we give herewith will convey more clearly than any words how we have advanced, and give force to the words of William Charles Wentworth, written in the early years of the present century, - "Should Britain cease to ride Despotic Empress of old Ocean's tide, May this - thy last-born infant - then arise To glad thy heart and greet thy parent eye, And Australasia float, with flag unfurl'd, A new Brittania in another world." In this volume there is an excellent photograph of Sydney Harbour, taken by Mr. Bayless, and the block has been lent to us by Messrs. Baker and Rouse, the well-known photographic supply dealers. Some of the photographs in this volume have been taken by Messrs. Kerry and Co., and we can say with considerable pride that Sydney can equal the best photographers in the world. We are not in any way behind the English or Americans in matters of photographic art, and the reproductions as seen in this book say more than chapters of words could, how the world goes with us in that respect. The Electric Photo Company has made nearly all the blocks, and they bear witness to what skill can do under the sunny skies of New South Wales. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.