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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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y. From a point onRoss Island, a small rocky and originally isolated hill called Maga-zine Island, extends a solid stone jetty to a total distance of 4085feet into the bay. This jetty is 15 feet wide on the top, with abroad base of 110 feet. On the weather side is a concrete parapet,four feet square, and on the inner side a two-feet square coping, onefoot above the surface. The total cost of this jetty has been about.£125,000, including a causeway, 900 feet long and 30 feet wide,between Magazine and Ross Islands. At the end of the jetty is adepth of 11 feet at low water. This work was commenced in 1876,and stopped for two or three years after completion of the firstsection. On the western side of the mouth of Ross Creek, a break-water of heavy stones to a width of 11 feet is being extended 5450feet. Of this work the Government constructed 2450 feet by daylabour, the remaining distance of 3000 feet is being done by a con-tract which expires in the end of 1891. This breakwater runs out
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TOWNSVILLE RAILWAYS. 129 towards the end of the jetty, and between them is an enclosed basin,40 acres of which are to be dredged to a depth of 15 feet at lowwater spring tides. The spring tides rise up to 10 feet 6 inches, andneaps fall to four feet and six feet. When this breakwater anddredging works are completed, ocean steamers will be able to enterand berth alongside the wharves on the jetty or at the base of thebreakwater, and the Townsville harbour troubles will be consignedto the oblivion of the past. Cleveland Bay was first seen and named by Captain Cook on the6th of June, 1770. Perhaps the first whites to land on any part ofthat coast were the unhappy people wrecked in 1846, in the barquePeruvian, and washed ashore after dreadful hardships on the north-east side of Cape Cleveland. They were all kindly treated by theblacks, but all died within a year or two, except a seaman namedJames Murrells, usually called Jimmy Morrill, who remainedwith the natives for 17 years, until reco

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