NEW SOUTH WALES. 



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Goulburn district, with certain tracts in New England, is the best cultivated and 

 most productive in New South Wales. In 1880 a section of the seaboard between 

 Sydney and "Wollongong- was set apart as the common inheritance of all Australian 

 citizens. This " national park " of Port Hacking, with its hills, woodlands, 

 navigable streams and inlets teeming with fish, has a total area of no less than 

 37,000 acres. 



Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, with the contiguous islets, depend adminis- 



Fig. 178. — Norfolk Islaot>. 

 Scale 1 : 110,000. 



0to32 

 Feet. 



Kepths. 



32 to 80 

 Feet. 



80 Feet 

 and upwards. 



2 Miles. 



tratively on New South Wales, although they belong geographically to New Zea- 

 land, as shown by the common submarine relief. On the other hand, they may be 

 said to constitute little worlds apart in virtue of their highly characteristic flora 

 and fauna. Lord Howe, 2,800 feet high, has been inhabited since 1840 by a few 

 families, who get a living by supplying passing vessels with provisions. But they 

 do not appear to prosper, judging at least from the emigration, by which the 

 little community has been reduced from three hundred to some forty souls. 



