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Identifier: QueenslandRailwayAndTouristsGuide (find matches)
Title: Queensland Railway And Tourists Guide
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Archibald Meston
Subjects: State Library of Queensland Queensland Queensland Railways train travel tourist guide travel
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nd gray; a Raphaelistic fresco by the Immortals!The time was, when in one of those dark caverns, far overhead onthe eastern face, a South Sea Islander, stained with blood, sought arefuge from the police. To enter the cave was death. Rifle shots,fired in stern necessity, startled a thousand echoes in the surroundinghills, and the unhappy son of wave-washed Tanna slumbered withhis fathers. Among those fantastic hills at the back of Springsure,a girdling zone of the eartliquakes rarest workmanship, are mines ofchoicest opal, not unknown to the London lapidaries. Springsureopal, sold to Streeter of London, was made into an opal suite forLady Brassey, who on her visit to Rockhampton went out to Spring-sure by special train, with a band of attendants, and saw and con-versed with Mr. Frank Batho, who sold to Streeter the original opalof those jewels for which she paid 200 guineas. She also visitedthe mine from which the opal was taken, and expressed herselfdelighted with the whole excursion.
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JV(ackay Railway. MACKAY is a townsliip on the Pioneer River, 625 miles north,along the coast from Brisbane, in latitude 21.9 south andlongitude 149.13 east. Off the mouth of the river lie two islands, Round Top and Flat Top, a mile apart. On Flat Top, besidewhich all large coasting steamers anchor, is a lighthouse, with a redand white light, in a tower 32 feet high and 174 feet above highwater This light is visible 19 miles. The mouth of the river isone and a half mile S.W. of Flat Top in a curve of the sandy beach.This river is only navigable for vessels drawing 11 feet of water.The tide on the bar rises from 12 to 16 feet, and 10 to 12 feet at thetown, which is four miles from the bar. Passengers by the largesteamers are landed in a comfortable steam tender which receivesthem at the anchorage at Flat Top. Mackay stands on the south bank of the river, four miles from themouth, and about a mile from the sea beach. The origin of thename and the settlement itself must necessarily be in

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