TOPOGRAPHY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



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THE KATOOMBA FALLS AND 

 THE THREE SISTERS. 



Nature weaves the robes of 

 imperial purple and royal gold ; 

 while down in the gorges the 

 pale gray mists and the deep 

 blue shadows are prepared ; 

 while every salient point, every 

 unshadowed ridge is flooded 

 with fiery rays ; while the bare 

 crags gleam and glow in the 

 lambent flame of the sunset as 

 if in process of transmutation, 

 and the gnarled and stunted 

 trees of the summit stand out 

 in weird and fantastic outline 

 in the burning spectral light. 

 The tourist who starts from 

 Sydney to study the scenery 

 of the Blue Mountains travels 



through some of the most charming country in New South Wales, where the original 

 wildness of the bush has been subdued, and the landscape looks almost English in its 



