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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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in thedistance until it curves into the bosom of the bordering hills. The name Jondaryan should be Jondooyan, or Jondooee,the native name given to a lagoon in a sudden curve of the creek.The aboriginal name of the plain itself is Joonamwiwi, the outcomeof the following incident:—In the early days the blacks were chasedby a party of white men, and driven on to the top of a hill over-looking the plain. On the summit of this hill stood a tall tree withbranches reaching to the ground. All the piccaninnies climbed upthis tree to see where the pursuers were situated, and hence thename Joonamwiwi, the place where the children climbed. Passing for 24 miles through somewhat monotonous country, andpast the wayside stations of Bowenville and Blaxland, the trainarrives at Dalby, 153 miles from Brisbane. Dalby is situated on dead-level, lightly timbered, black soil plains,a monotonous scene, broken only to the north-east by the dark, pine-clad Bunya Ranges. Dalby was proclaimed a municipality on
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TOOWOOMBA TO CHARLEY ILLE. 41 August 31st, 1863. It was once the depot for all the Western-squatters, and a lively town, patronised by wild bushmen, menwith strange oaths and bearded like a pard, where the squattertopped his Moet and Chandon in the swell hotel, while the unpre-tentious rouseabout and monopathic shepherd buried their sadremembrances of hard work and maddening solitude in the humbleNepenthean rum. Dalby was commonly and appropriately described as the City ofthe Plains, the level downs stretching away in all directions,broken only to the north-east by the Bunya Range. The town has apopulation of 1400 people. The climate is dry and healthy, beinggenerally a few degrees hotter than that of Toowoomba, but withmuch the same maximum in summer and minimum in winter. Lastyear the thermometer fell to 25° in June. Twenty miles from Dalby are the celebrated Bunya Mountains,the habitat of Araucaria Bidioilli, one of the handsomest pines inthe world, and some fine specimens of whic

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