AUSTRALIA Tasmania Blue Mountains

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print title: View Taken in the Blue Mountains Print Specifics: Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique print Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual: 1890 Publisher: D. Appleton & Co., New York. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 7 x 10.5 inches (17 x 26,5 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin) Reverse side: Blank Notes: 1. Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. Original Narrative: Like the Australian Alps the Tasmanian mountains are formed of granites and Silurian deposits. But geologists have hitherto failed to determine the presence of volcanoes properly so-called, although in many places eruptive rocks have formed transverse barriers over which the running waters fall in cascades down to the plains. Nearly the whole island is covered with irregular mountain masses, which attain their greatest elevation in the north-west, here culminating in Cradle Mountain (5,065 feet). Several other peaks exceed 4,600 feet, but the land falls towards the south-east, where the seaboard is penetrated by deep fjords. Viewed as a whole Tasmania presents the outlines of half an oval, eroded on the north side facing Australia in the form of a regular concave curve. Here the 'intervening waters of Bass Strait were at some former epoch undoubtedly replaced by an isthmus connecting both regions, and of which nothing now survives except a few granite islets. But immediately east of the strait the marine abysses plunge into depths of over 2,500 fathoms. From the geological standpoint Wilson's Promontory, the southernmost point of the Australian continent, is an island like those scattered over the shallow waters of the strait. Were the mainland to subside some 300 feet the two inlets to the west and east of the headland would be connected by a second marine channel. North of the Australian Alps the highlands skirting the seaboard ramify into several parallel chains, the main range running at a mean distance of 45 or 50 miles from the Pacific. Each chain and each transverse ridge has its separate name, while the whole system is sometimes designated by the common appellation of the Blue Mountains, a term more specially applicable to the mountains lying to the west of Sydney, and long regarded by the early settlers as an unsurmountable rampart towards the interior of the continent. Although the highest peaks, such as Sea-view, west of Port Macquarie towards the north of New South Wales, scarcely exceed 6,000 feet, while most of them fall below 5,000 feet, they have in many places been carved by erosive action into rocky cirques with vertical walls of an imposing aspect. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998. Five-star service.

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