Balmain, Parish of Petersham, 1886 Size:35 x 55 cm (A2) The ambitious landscape master plan

The ambitious landscape master plan for Canberra's centrepiece

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

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’

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naturalist and intrepid explorer

Balmain, Parish of Petersham, 1886 Size:35 x 55 cm (A2) The ambitious landscape master planCreator 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