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Jamieson's Valley c1815-1816

Jamieson's Valley c1815-1816

By

John William Lewin

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a303004 / PXE 888, 3]

(Mitchell Library)

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Lewin, John William

Australia's first professional artist, who also published Australia's first illustrated book 'Birds of New South Wales' in 1813. He also worked as the colonial coroner from 1810 until his death in 1819.

State Library of New South Wales

Darwin's Walk, Wentworth Falls

Darwin's Walk starts from Wilson Park Wentworth Falls and runs across a boardwalk and bush track through open forest, shrub, and hanging swamps to the national park boundary. It was in the valley at the end of Jamison Creek that Charles Darwin stood in 1836, struggling for words to describe the 'quite novel' scene before him, the 'immense gulf' and the 'absolutely vertical' sandstone cliffs where 'a person standing on the edge and throwing down a stone, can see it strike the trees in the abyss below'.

Hotels and Pubs

Blue Mountains

Part of the Great Dividing Range west of Sydney, reaching a height of 1100 metres. In 1829 the name for the area used by the local Aboriginal people was recorded as being Colomatta .

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Wentworth Falls

Blue Mountains residential suburb. William Cox erected a "weatherboard hut" as a supply depot there in 1815 while building a road over the mountains.

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