There is a general impression in Europe that Australia is deficient in harbours and navigable rivers. With regard to harbours on its coast line nothing can be more erroneous. It is in interior navigation that the country is found wanting; but even in this respect recent research has discovered that great practical advantages exist, which only require ordinary energy to render
internal rivers available to an immense extent of country, which is as
yet without the means of any but the most expensive modes of conveying
produce to the port of shipment.
The
colony of New South Wales contains an abundance of excellent harbours,
into which some considerable rivers disembogue themselves. The best
way, perhaps, of giving to the general reader a knowledge of the
hydrography of this portion
