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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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north to Clermont, and another 42 miles southto Springsure. The native name of Emerald is Eurumbo. Leaving Emerald for the West, the line passes through fine openpark-like country, with brigalow shrubs and dwarf blood wood, pastSt. Helens— Goolboolbo, Glendarriwill, native name Yool-gool, to Anakie, where the engine waters at a big lagoon in themidst of ash and brigalow. Thence by Borilla, native word forbig plain, to Withersfield, on flat ridges of gums, ironbark, andash, these timbers continuing to Bogantungan. This formidableword is simply the native name for the grass-tree. The stationstands in a valley on the slope of a flat ridge of box and silver iron-bark, surrounded by low ranges. Here are two stores, a hotel, andbakers shop. Leaving here, the line, which is now 1098 feet above the sea,starts to enter the spurs of the Drummond Range, ascending nearly700 feet in the next eight miles, to Hannams Gap on top of therange. During the ascent the train toils up steep grades, round
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MARYBOROUGH TO BARCALDINE. 113 sharp curves, overlooking long spurs sloping to the valley below,timbered by grey gums, silver ironbark, yellow flower acacias, up to-cypress pines at 1400 feet. At 1600 feet there is a fine view awayto the east, down a long deep valley, guarded by sentinel rangesterraced along the face by dark layers of stratified sandstone rock,the curved and pointed and level summits overgrown by avenues ofstately trees, standing outlined against the blue sky, solemn and•serene. Children of elder time, in whose devotionThe chainless winds still come and ever cameTo drink their odours, and their mighty swingingTo hear, an old and solemn harmony.! From Hannams Gap, the line passes through open well grassedcountry, timbered by ironbark, bloodwood, wattle, box, and dwarfpines, to Drummond, at 241 miles. You are now on the watershedof the Belyando, a tributary of the Burdekin. These small streamsyou cross, probably travel 500 miles before they enter the sea nearCape Clev

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