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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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28th, 184-2. Hughenden isthe centre of a splendid squatting district. There are eight hotels,several stores, two banks, and various tradesmen and mechanics.The climate is healthy, with a light dry atmosphere. From Hughendento the Cloncurry is a distance of 280 miles, and that is the directionin which the railway will likely be extended. The route traversessome of the finest pastoral country in North Queensland. FromHughenden you can travel, by way of Winton or Muttaburra, toBarcaldine on the Rockhampton railway, across beautiful rollingdowns and black soil plains. The Hughenden country to the west-ward, in richness of soil and geniality of climate, is equal to anypart of Queensland. Those glorious downs would grow magnificentcrops in favourable seasons, and grapes and fruits attain to perfectionwherever they have been planted and cared for. There are splendidpossibilities in the future of that country, when population spreads,westward and the coast provides a market for the interior.
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l^INCHINBROOK Passage. J^UNGENESS stands at the mouth of the Herbert River,opposite the end of Hinchinbrook Island, a few houses on alonely sandspit, the river on one side, a mangrove marsh on theother, dark and dismal as melancholy Marianas glooming flats.Landward, a vast expanse of level forest stretches away to the footof a majestic range of rugged hills, and eastward rolls the eternalocean— With the ships like sheeted spectresFading down the distant sea. Across the river entrance, half a mile away, is the south end ofHinchinbrook Island, and the entrance to the channel between theisland and the mainland. You have here the Pacific on the risht,the tall coast range on the left, and in front the towering peaks ofHinchinbrook— Height on height stupendous hurled—Like the pillars of the skies—Like the ramparts of the world. We pass round beneath the shadow of Mts. Straloch and Diamantina,3,100 ft. above us, into Rockingham Channel, a wide river-like expanseof water, 31 miles lon

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