. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 1,100 Yards. or 10 square miles, and the shore-line of the inner waters with their bays and secondary creeks is no less than 50 miles long. Sydney, founded on the south side of this magnificent harbour, is the oldest city in Australia, for a cycle of a hundred years is still a long period in the history of European settlements in the southern hemisphere. At first a simple convict station, and afterwards the headquarters of the prisons scattered over the sur- rounding territory, Sydney long remained an obscure village built in a forest

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