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Title: John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: O’Rell, Max, 1848-1903
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Publisher: New York, C. L. Webster & company
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nsformation scenes. This harbor is in-contestably one of the most imposing-looking of naturesmarvels. The narrow entrance between two bold head-lands is about half an hours steaming from the city,which seems reposing on the water in the far end ofan immense broken-coasted lake. From the bridgeof the Monowai we are shown by Captain Carey thecul de sac where the unfortunate Dunbar was wreckedwith her great cargo of human souls. The entrance ofthis trap bears a great resemblance to Sydney Heads,and the commander of the Dunbar, further mystifiedby a thick, dirty night, mistook the one for the other, 51 52 JOHN BULL & CO. and steered the unhappy people to their doom. Butnow we are steaming cautiously between the great sheercliffs that form the real entrance to Sydney harbor, andin a few moments there bursts upon our delighted eyesa glorious panorama. We are in raptures and we donot miss a bit of it. It is not only the details thatcharm, it is the ensemble. The eye is carried constantly
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NORTH HEAD, SYDNEY. from each separate part to the whole. Each little bayand cove is lovely, and charms the sight, but the whole,the immense, grandiose whole, absorbs one. Here it is a rugged hill with trees that .seem to havetheir roots in the water; there it is an inviting-lookingbeach ; further on it is a noble hill, its sides dotted overwith dainty dwellings, pretty houses, each set in a gar-den, where the picturesque sub-tropical vegetation, the JOHN BULL & CO. 53 magnolia, the tree ferns, the cactus and a hundredother such plants are mingled with the loveliest flowersof Europe. After four weeks of solitude on the ocean, here weare in the midst of life again. Ferry-boats are crossingone another in all directions, plying between the cityand the various suburbs. There are numbers of linersat anchor. We pass the Australian fleet. Finally, afterhalf an hour, which passes like a dream, we are along-side the wharf at the foot of the town. We shake handswith Captain Carey and our fe
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