TOPOGRAPHY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



THE COAST-LINE. 



I "HE coast of New South Wales, though not deeply indented, has by no means a 

 ' monotonous outline, and from beginning to end it is of great interest and 



frequently of much beauty. A voyage in a coasting vessel along these six hundred 



miles of shore affords one long succession of varying effects, and requires only the 



beautiful weather which generally prevails to make the changing panorama delightful. 



The lover of the picturesque 



finds all he can desire in the 



constantly - recurring change 



from cliffs to sandy beaches 



and from promontories to 



bays, in the contrast between 



the vegetation on the rich 



flats with the more sombre 



hue of that which clothes 



the poorer lands on the 



TWOFOLD BAY. 



seaward mountain slopes, in the rapid succession of pretty little outports with their 

 beacons and their ever active craft, and in the always varying outline of the dusky- 

 verdured background as the hills rise and fall, advance and recede. There is plenty, 

 too, to occupy the geologist in noting the change from granite to sandstone, in the 

 irregular reddening of the latter by iron-stone deposits, in the visible inclination of the 

 strata, in the clip of the coal seams, and in the occasional signs of eruptive action. 



