Title

Liverpool, New South Wales.

Author

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Publication date

1825

Type

About the work

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Liverpool, New South Wales.

THE Settlement called LIVERPOOL is so advantageously situated that there is every probability of its becoming, ere long, one of the most important towns in NEW SOUTH WALES. It stands in a central situation, between SYDNEY and the fertile districts of Airds, Appin, Bunbury Curran, Cabramatta, Bringelly, Campbell Town, the Cow-Pasture, and the Five Islands; and the great southern road leading to the Counties of Camden, Argyle, and Westmoreland, passes through it. it is situated about twenty miles from SYDNEY, upon the banks of GEORGE'S RIVER, which is about half the size of the HAWKESBURY, and is navigable for Vessels of fifty tons burthen as high up as LIVER­POOL. This River empties itself into Botany Bay, which is about fourteen miles southward of the head of Port Jackson. The banks of George's River are occasionally overflowed; but the inundations are not in general attended with such destructive consequences as those which occur in the neighbourhood of the HAWKESBURY.

Under the active and beneficent governorship of the late Major-General Macquarie, LIVERPOOL was much improved, as well as enlarged, by the erection of several Public Buildings, comprising a New Church, Public Schools, Storehouse, Military Barrack, Prison, Court-House, and Hospital. Several very handsome Private Houses, and extensive Commercial Buildings, have also recently been erected by respectable in­dividuals, in consequence of which the size and the population of the Settlement are both rapidly increasing.

The land in the immediate vicinity of LIVERPOOL is, in some parts, very stoney and barren, producing a great quantity of Iron-stone; but that near the River is very good, and from which are procured excellent crops of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Indian Corn, and Potatoes. Some of the very best land in this part of the Country is situated at Cabramatta, about a mile from LIVERPOOL.

Accompanying text, 1825.