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there is a silver-mine, the ores of which, although somewhat refractory, are likely at some 

 future time to be made to yield their treasures at a cost which will leave a profit to 

 the workers. There is an extensive business done by the proprietors of saw-mills, and 

 the fanners around raise crops which well repay them for their toil and enterprise. 



WOLLONGONG FROM THE LIGHT-HOUSE. 



About a quarter of a century ago an enterprising mercnant, the late Mr. Thomas 

 Sutcliffe Mort, became possessed of thirty thousand acres of pasture-land at Bodalla, 

 sixteen miles south of Moruya, and manfully set to work with the. object of teaching his 

 fellow-colonists how dairy-farming should be conducted. Capital 'was not spared. Before 

 the first cheese was fit for the table forty thousand pounds had been expended. The 

 output now is three hundred tons of cheese annually, and every winter twelve hundred 

 pigs are slaughtered and sent to Sydney as bacon and hams. The system of farming 

 pursued is the best known, and the venture, as its founder anticipated, has been 

 productive of much national good. On an eminence overlooking the village stands the 

 Mort Memorial Church, a model of choice ecclesiastical architecture. The geology of 

 Bodalla is quartzite and clay-slate, with rich alluvial flats through which the Tuross winds, 

 and this formation continues almost to Bega, when basalt again occurs, overlying granite 

 and old rocks of probably Devonian origin. 



Beyond Bodalla is the pretty little village of Cobargo. Ten miles off is its sea-port, 

 Bermagui, near which, not many years ago, rich deposits of gold were found beneath 

 the sands of the sea-shore. There was a great " rush " of diggers, but the field was soon 

 proved to be but small not, however, before Mr. Lament Young, a clever geologist of 

 the Mines Department, and a small party, sent to make a special survey, disappeared in 



