The Australian colonies were no longer seen as places of convict exile; they were respectable destinations for immigrants and investment.
A road was commissioned in 1813 to be built from Emu Plains the most westerly staging- post from Sydney at the time. The settler population was a mere 14,086 when a 163klm road was carved up and over the Blue Mountains to the Bathurst Plains, the site of the colony’s first settlement west of the divide with the establishment of Bathurst in 1814.
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