This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...as the city itself, and garden frontages and avenues of trees lend them a picturesque and rurally home-like appearance--" a civil wildness," as the author of the Arcadia might say. The country along this line is gently undulating, but not sufficiently uneven to allow of any great variety of scenery. Homebush, abouL 8 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...as the city itself, and garden frontages and avenues of trees lend them a picturesque and rurally home-like appearance--" a civil wildness," as the author of the Arcadia might say. The country along this line is gently undulating, but not sufficiently uneven to allow of any great variety of scenery. Homebush, abouL 8 miles from the city, is the site of the great cattle yards, where the principal sales of live stock take place. Some of the older western suburbs lie between the railway and the waters of the harbour, on what was originally the main highway to Parramatta, and are reached by tram. The land in this direction presents greater difference of elevation than along the railway, but has the same general features. In addition to the line from Sydney to Parramatta, three other lines act Other Railway as suburban outlets. The first is the South Coast line, which, crossing Suburbs. George's River, mounts the steep gradients beyond, and thence descends quickly to the rich and lovely pastures of Illawarra and Shoal haven. At Waterfall, 20 miles from Sydney, this line reaches an elevation of 720 feet. The railway which connects Sydney with Newcastle (and thence proceeds to Brisbane) turns to the north 8 miles from Sydney, crosses the Parramatta River close to the pretty little village of Ryde, and gradually makes its way by orchard-clad slopes to the summit of the ridge, along which it continues till it descends through rugged hills lit up with native flowers to Peat's Ferry on the Hawkesbury River. But the most popular of all our suburban railways is the one which starts from Milson's Point on the North Shore, and, from the moment it leaves the harbour, mounts MOSMAN'S BAY, SYDNEY. by a spur dividing Middle Harbour from the Lane Cove River till it r...
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