TOPOGRAPHY OF NEW SO ['Til WALl-.s. 



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Leaving the shelter of Twofold Bay, we ha^e a long line of dark and rocky coast 

 to follow ; cliff-faces upon which the pure white lines of foam are ever breaking from 

 the ceaseless swell of the restless ocean, and for ninety miles onwards there are always 

 mountain ranges in 

 view, and a rocky shore 

 and occasional beaches. 

 North of Haystack 

 Point the coast is re- 

 cessed in a wide open 

 bay, into. the southern 

 end of which the Pan- 

 bula River discharges 

 itself, forming an outlet 

 from a lake of the same 

 name, while into the 

 northern end the 

 Merimbula River simi- 

 larly debouches from 

 a corresponding lake. 

 Both these points are 

 visited by the small 

 coasting steamers, for 

 the country carries 

 man)' dairy farms, 

 though the area of rich 

 land is limited. Fur- 

 ther north the mouth 

 of the Bega makes a 

 little port for the 

 coasters that trade in 

 farm produce from the 

 rich pastures between 

 the shore and the 

 ranges that rise in lines 

 of faint blue some 

 twenty miles inland, the 

 anchorage being under POINT PERPENDICULAR, JERVIS BAY. 



the shelter of Tathra 



Head. Subject to weather for these ports are bar-harbours vessels also visit the mouth 

 of the Tuross River and the Moruya River, the local trade being in dairy produce, timber 

 and return stores. But there is no opening of any considerable size throughout all these 

 ninety miles ; rock}- cliffs, carvecl-out inledges, buttresses and caverns, varied by sandy 

 coves at the feet of rounded hills of burnt and yellow grass, succeed one another all 

 the way. But far behind these again rise the ever-present mountains, giving a bold 



