Title

Plate 17: Top of Mount Lofty near Adealide. [by Eugene von Guérard].

Author

Author not identified

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

1868

Type

About the work

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Plate 17: Top of Mount Lofty near Adelaide.

Within an hour's ride of the city of Adelaide, Mount Lofty offers to the tourist an easily accessible elevation of about 2,400 feet, from which he commands a prospect of considerable extent and varied beauty. It embraces the plains upon which stands the capital of South Australia, Port Adelaide, the Gulf of St. Vincent, and Yorke's Peninsula. Northward, following the course of the ranges to which this mountain peak belongs, the eye is carried onward to the Barossa Range and to the conspicuous eminence upon which a German geologist has conferred the name of Mount Kaiserstuhl; at the foot of which lie the fertile plains surrounding the town of Gawler, one of the most flourishing places in the colony. Eastward stretches an undulating and heavily wooded country towards Mount Barker and thence onward to- Lake Alexandra. Southward the prospect is intercepted by lofty trees, through the chance breaks in which, you catch occasional glimpses of breadths of pasture land and swelling hills. There is a good carriage road to Mount Lofty, and some of the views of wood and waterfall attainable en route, are exquisite. Within 200 feet of the summit, a vineyard has been planted, and produces some choice varieties of wine. Mount Lofty is much resorted to in the summer months by picnic parties, and it would be difficult to imagine a more delightful spot for such a purpose.

Accompanying work, 1868.