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Title: Ipswich And Bundamba
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Queensland Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau
Subjects: Queensland West Moreton South East Queensland coal mining Ipswich Bundamba tourist guide State Library of Queensland
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Brisbane. It is picturesquely situated in a sort of natural basinsbrrounded by hills more or less remote. The river Bremer winds through thecity. Some of the mountains, like Mount Crosby, belong to the DAguilargroup ; others, like Mount Goolman and the conical Peaks Mountains, standout in solitary outline. Faint and far to the north-west rise the mountainsthat form the watershed of the Brisbane River. Dim and distant to westwardlooms the blue barrier of the Main Range. Standing on Denmark Hill, thehighest point in the city, you look round and realise a sense of space—ofwide fertile tracts stretching on three sides to the feet of the mountains. Youexperience in a measure the sensations of the early pioneers, who knew notwhat Eldorado lay beyond those iron hills. You receive the impression that,ages since, all this country was once a huge lake or marsh, out of which rosethe cone-shaped islands whose extinct volcanoes now form the well-known land-marks of a rich agricultural province.
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NICHOLAS STREET. Ipswich has been called The Modern Athens (a name given it by SirGeorge Bowen), on account of its excellent scholastic advantages, and it is theoldest of Queensland towns. Prior to 1828 Captain Logan, of Moreton BayPenal Depot, traced the Brisbane River to its confluence with the Bremer, andset about the work of lime-burning on the banks of the latter stream. In1842 the lime-burning settlement was examined by Sir George Gibbs, thenGovernor of New South Wales, who chose it as the site for the present city.It was for years known as Limestone. In 1846 the population numbered 64males and 36 females, while to-day the population of Ipswich, within a 5-mileradius, must number 17,000, and that of West Moreton about 45,000. IPSWICH AND BUNDANBA. 15 Ipswich is at the head of navigation on the -Bremer. In the early days theriver traffic was considerable. Although at present the railway has ousted mostof this trade, cargo boats still ply to and from Brisbane. The first steamerto

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