Excerpt from Official Handbook: The Port of Sydney, N. S. W Many tides have risen and fallen since the first fleet, whose eleven vessels did not aggregate more than tons, dropped anchor in Sydney Cove. The little hamlet of 130 years ago has grown into a city of inhabitants, covering an area of 148 square miles; it has spread civilisation over a continent nearly as large as Europe; and though the original territory Of New South Wales has been subdivided into several States, Sydney remains the chief port of Australia, and capital of a State two - and-a-half times the size of Great Britain and Ireland, whose ever-increasing trade is conducted by steamers of as much as thirty times the tonnage Of the largest of Governor Phillip 's ships. While it might crowd the harbour somewhat if a thousand modern sail of the line were to pay Sydney a surprise visit there is no gainsaying that as regards safety and beauty Governor Phillip's appreciation is as applicable to-day as when it was uttered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.