Queen's Album e-catalogue - Catalog - Page 30
‘A grand panorama soon spreads out before us as
we ascend the giddy height, and look down on the
Valley of the Nepean.’ This was the view described
by tourists travelling by train from Sydney to the
Blue Mountains looking out over Penrith and
Emu Plains. As the Nepean River, the orchards it
nourished and the smattering of homesteads that
skirted out from ‘quaint old’ Penrith town melded,
tourists were reassured that the Colony’s land could
not only be cultivated for food, but also for pleasure.
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