WHARF CONSTRUCTION, SYDNEY HARBOUR. XXV. 
of the shipping which visited the various ports in the year 
1800, but in 1822 the ports of New South Wales, which 
then represented the whole of Australia, were visited by 
71 vessels of 22,824 tons in the aggregate. In 1830 the 
number increased to 157 vessels of 31,225 tons; by the 
year 1840 the shipping had increased to 709 vessels, with 
an aggregate tonnage of 178,958 tons. The records show 
that the shipping entered at the port of Sydney in 1860 
numbered 852 of an aggregate tonnage of 292,213. 
In 1870 numbered 1,006 of an aggregate tonnage of 385,161 
1880 ee On . i 837,738 
1890 oe 1 ae i » 1,644,539 
[04 (00 San a Bey KS a > «2,716,651 
1901 op ELGRYE x Oe 2.On oust 
fegoen 3799 i Geer. 
(908°. -6,093 i , 4,226,954 
1904-2 7-554 iy 847548550 
1905 4, ~=—- 9,626 Z a OS TOME 
From this it will be seen that in 45 years the shipping 
entering the port of Sydney had increased from 852 vessels, 
of an aggregate tonnage of a little more than a quarter of 
a million, to the very large number of 9,626 with an aggre- 
gate tonnage of over five and two-thirds million, thus 
making the port of Sydney one of the ten largest shipping 
centres of the world. The increase in the size of vessels 
visiting the port is also remarkable, and is of course the 
result of an evolution which has taken place the world over 
in the construction of both cargo and passenger carriers. 
In the year 1870 a vessel of 3,000 tons was regarded as 
exceptional, and very few steamers of that size were 
engaged anywhere except between Liverpool and New York. 
Almost up to the middle of the seventies practically the 
whole of the over-sea trade of Sydney was carried in 
wooden sailing ships, ranging from a length of 180 feet, to 
