Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-07-05


rows to a few miles only, with an ele-
walton of scarcely 1900 feet, rising
again at the Blue mountains, where the
principal SUBMITS attain a considerable
elevation, Mt Beemarang reaching
4,10O feet. There are other alternate
decreases and increases OF elevation.
the mass widening out in the Liverpool
ranges, where Mt Oxley stands con-
spicuous at height of $500 feet, white
still farther north Ben Lomond reaches
5000 feet, and the lakeland maintains
an average altitude of 5000 feet, giving
to this district, although situated at no
great distance from the tropics, the
climate and aspect of much higher lati-
tudes. Narrow valleys and deep gorges
everywhere break the continuity OF the
dividing range Such is especially the.
case in the Blue mountains, where the
scenery is of striking and characteristic
grandeur. The lakeland every
where presents one strange popularity.
The level land suddenly terminates,
and many hundred feet below, as far as
the eye can reach, wooded valleys ex-
tend, whose undulating floors are
walled in by sandstone cliffs, of height
so enormous as to be without parallel
elsewhere in the world. At the bottom
of these valleys small rivulets and tiny
streams, fed by waterfalls from the
tableland, trace their way, under an
ever-verdant dome of graceful tree
ferns and giant eucalyDti
The mountain scenery of this part of
New South Wales produces on the
traveller an entirely new impression.
Here are no snow-capped peaks upon
which the rising and setting sun pro-
duces strange and magnificent color
effects, nor does any peculiar shape Of
the SUBMITS strike the Imagination, as
in the Alps and Pyrenees of the old
world. On the contrary, from the
plains the New South Wales mount
aims look rather insignifi can't. But
gazing from the edges of the high table,
land into the deep valleys below, the
mind is awed by the realiza ion of the
magnificent scale on which nature has
worked in these soiitudes. In many
places the cliffs rise 1000 feet perpen-
dicularly from the valley beneath, and
the hills at their feet, formed by the
accumulation of debris from their sides
and from the plateau above, appear as
slight undulations. The valleys and
sides of the gorgeS, wherever there is
soil, are clothed with dense vegetation.
and over all is the mantle Of blue haze
which males the whole eject most
striking, and which has given to the.
range visible from Sydney it's appro-
pirate name. The main range throws
on many spurs toward the sea on the
eastern slope. which divide the waters
OF the numerous rivers flowing into
the Pacific ocean. In the Illawarra dis
trict, the Garden of New South
Wales" the base of the mountains
skirts the very edge of the coast pre-
sent1ng toward the ocean a perpendicu.
lar face OF cliff, nearly 1000 feet in
helght. The beauty of the scenery here
with its immense masses of fern. palm.
and other sub-tropical vegetation. is.
almost proverbial. 1t is, indeed. a
lovely country, and situated within a
three hours railway ride of Sydney
on the snowy ranges and the SUBMITS,
OF the Australian Alps there is snow
during the greater part of the year. and
snoW-shoes are in use during
winter time in the snow country, where
Sno"-shoe races are periodically held