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Title: The web of empire : a diary of the imperial tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York in 1901
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919 Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922, ill Martino, Eduardo de, d. 1912
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and company, limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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vi BRISBANE AND SYDNEY 185 they wheel round and fall into two lines astern, so as toform a supplementary escort. For an hour or more we steam southward along theprecipitous coast, and then, wheeling round to the east-ward, we pass between the famous lighthouse-cappedHeads, which an Australian writer has described asthose ancient water-gates of a Continent, throughwhose imposing portal first poured into the landdestined to become the New Britain of the SouthernHemisphere the rising tide of European population.This means in plain language that the Heads form theentrance of the spacious Port Jackson, the harbour ofSydney, which was long the only port of arrival foremigrants to Australia. To-day they are looking theirbest, rising majestically against the clear blue sky, withthe long swell of the Southern Pacific breaking in foamon their base. The grey clouds which had beenhanging over us all morning have kindly dispersed atthe right moment, and we see before us the beautifulharbour in all

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