The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-23

The Ocean Gate of Australia-5plen-
did Harbors-Lovely Lakes and gu
perb scenery-The Australian Des-
ert-Postoffice Bells.
Copyright, Louis Klopsch, is94)
Sydney, Aug. Pitched, shaken,
twisted, flung, sickened, bruised, dis
mayed, alarmed are some of the words
which describe our feelings whilst cross
ing from New Zealand to Australia. We
heard that the passage was like crossing
the channel at Calais from France to
4 England but that instead of the hour and
Ia half it would be four days and a half,
! 1t was worse than we expected and worse
than usual. We had nearly six days of it,
s The only alienation of the voyage was the
captain, who was jolly at the time to be
Jolly, serious at the time to be serious, and
8deeply religious at ali times. Converted
= in Presbyterian church in New Zealand,
he has become flaming evangel, preach
ing on board his steamer once or twice
every Sabbath.
Our rough sea experience prepared us
Tor full appreciation of one of the bright
est panOramas of the land and sky that
ever unroled before mortal vision Capt.
a Neville said to us: 1--WE will soon be in
sight Of the Australian coast, and when
3 we approach the harbor of Sydney come
E up on my bridge, and will point out to
you the objects of interest THANK
s you, was our reply to the unusual invi-
tau0n, for sea captains do not ordinarily
IKE TO have company on the steamers
bridge. In few moments we climbed to
the side of the captain Great walls of
rock built by the eternal God reached
along the coast, and stopped only wide
81 enough apart to allow ships to enter and
Keep the bOisterous ocean out.
"4onder,' said the captain, ''is the re-
treat in the rocks which in the twilight
VecelVed the captain of the Duncan Dun
oar to mistake it for the harbor and to
am Tor it, crashing into destruction. All
on board persisted save one man, who
was picked up after he had foated down
On to the shelving"
3 safely we rode in between the
TWO GREAT BROWN PILLARS
~ Hawkesbury sandstone, and then be-
gan The revelation of a harbor such as
nowhere else in the wide world is to be
Iouhu. The whole scene is an odyssey"
Nylna COmmedia," an Old Testament
1uu New Testament of grandeur and
lellness. You cannot for moment
'Nul OAACIEJ u Watching WlbuOub
lAslhg something which you cannot see
aEaih The white palaces of the merchant
princes Of Sydney shine through the foil
ase OF the trees. Dipping to the bay are
gardens abloom IN winter, ana lawns
Iyu an emerald like unto the fourth
eyer OF the wall of heaven. Tropical
ANTS and tropical flowers stand side
sIue with the growths of more rig
.ous climates. Vineyards and orange
SiOles' pomegranates and guavas, and
ueapples growing in a revelrY Of luXur-
au'e' Norfolk pines, palm, MoretOn bay
ana Eucalyptus trees stretch their
epJers over the scene Complete be-
"ehment of landscape Steady"
leu yhe captain TO the man at the wheel,
o.eduy' But no observer can keep
,t steady while watching this ever
uauslng, ever-ins piring, ever-enchanting
sNe. "Gonder is the monastery; yon-
Just coming in sight. is the admirals
ouae louder is the university. Yon-
d A., are the houses Of parliament Yon-
~ea are The old prisons. There is the
I.eFuors residence" Here sweeping up
o'e 70 our steamer are launches with
si0nlsts. Wonder are sailing boats,
V Quail they suggest tiuttering seagull.
"uIe the area OF the harbor is said TO be
5m lare miles. the water line of IL, If
loved up and down all It's iulets would
we've hundred miles. The ripping
Kiss the beach, and the
nv, neach embraces the bay At the
- 80 turn OF our steamers wheel more
"''ufe OF island and arbor and inlet