The headlands at the mouth of the harbour form one of the grandest features in the natural scenery of the country.
It is not, however, a distant or cursory glance that will give you a just idea of the importance of this busy capital.
In order to form a just estimation of it, you should take a boat and proceed from Sydney Cove to Darling Harbour, you will then see the whole extent of the eastern shore of the latter capacious basin equally crowded with warehouses, stores, dock-yards, mills, and wharfs; the store-houses built on the most magnificent scale, and with the best and most substantial materials.

The population of Sydney is supposed now to exceed 10,000 persons.
The second town in the colony is Paramatta.

It is distant about fourteen miles from Sydney, being pleasantly situated at the head of one of the navigable arms of Port Jackson.

It contains nearly 5,000 inhabitants.
The other towns in the colony, are Windsor, Liverpool, Campbell Town, Newcastle and Maitland.

The last will doubtless ere long be the second in the colony, as it is situated at the head of the navigation of Hunter's river.
Very fine roads have been formed in Australia, particularly one leading across the Blue mountains to Bathurst, on the western side of that range, which is 180 miles from Sydney.
The openness of the country around Bathurst is more favourable for hunting and shooting than most other parts of the colony.
The Kangaroo and the Emu are both hunted with dogs; they are both feeble animals, but they are not altogether destitute of the means of defence.
In addition to swiftness of foot, the Emu has a great muscular power in his long iron limbs, and can give an awkward blow to his pursuer, by striking out at him behind, like a young horse, while the Kangaroo, when brought to bay by the dogs, rests himself on his strong muscular tail, seizes the dog with his little hands or fore-feet, and thrusts at him with one of his hind feet, which is armed for that purpose with a single sharp-pointed hoof, and perhaps lay his side completely open.
[Illustration] When hotly pursued, the kangaroo sometimes takes to the water, where, if he happen to be followed by a dog, he has a singular advantage over all other quadrupeds of his own size, from his being able to stand erect in pretty deep water.
In this position he waits for the dog, and when the latter comes close up to him, he seizes him with his fore-feet and presses him under water till he is drowned.
The Bustard, or native turkey, is occasionally shot in the Bathurst country.