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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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(1885) the number of British and foreign ships that en-tered Port Jackson was 2601, with an aggregate tonnage of 2,088,307tons. There are several ship building and repairing establishmentshere; that of the Australian Steam Navigation Company alone coversmore than six acres, and employs nearly five hundred persons. A hun-dred years ago this was a howling wilderness; that is, if the Australiansavages were accustomed to howl, and I presume they were. INDUSTEIES OF SYDNEY. 315 We could give figures about Sydney that would make your head an ant-hill of units and tens, as Doctor Holmes says; but perhapsyouve had enough to convince you of the importance of the city. Ithas six daily papers, weeklies so numerous that the list would be monot-onous, and as for schools, churches, hospitals, clubs, hotels, and otherinstitutions of a great city, there are all thatcould be reasonably expected. As to manu-facturmg industries, it has a great many factories, founderies, and engineering establibhmentb;
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IRRIGATING AN ORANGE-GROVE. for clothing alone there are more than fifty factories, employing fromfifty to four hundred hands each, and the other manufacturing con-cerns are in similar proportion. Our friends went on a steamboat excursion to Paramatta, whichlies up the river of the same name, about fifteen miles from Sydney.Kext to Sydney, it is the oldest town in the colony, having been founded 316 THE BOY TEAVELLEES IN AUSTEALASIA. in November, 1788; it was originally called Eosehill, but the nameAvas afterwards changed to the aboriginal one of Par-a-mat-ta. Thefirst grain raised in the colony was grown at Paramatta, and here theearliest grants of land were made to convicts who had served their timeat hard labor and were entitled to become colonists. It is now a pros-perous town with from eight to ten thousand inhabitants, and has aconsiderable business in manufacturing. Along the banks of the riverand in the neighborhood of Paramatta, there are many flower-gardens,from which Sydney

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