Balmain, Parish of Petersham, 1886 Size:35 x 55 cm (A2) Stromlo - Kambah grazing blocks

Stromlo - Kambah grazing blocks to be leased for a term of ten years

Creator Stanton & Son Auctioneers

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rhapsodising in his ‘Journal of Tours in New South Wales’ how ‘After feasting our eyes on the view from the summit’ he descended into rainforest ‘with the largest and finest trees ever seen in the colony’

He was impressed with the ‘vast quantities of cabbage palm and fern trees … the former being very beautiful and of great height’

Balmain, Parish of Petersham, 1886 Size:35 x 55 cm (A2) Stromlo - Kambah grazing blocksCreator Higinbotham Robertson & Harrison Date 1886 From Higinbotham and Robinson's Directory of Maps of Municipalities Surrounding the City of Sydney. Source: National Library of Australia