Bathurst

the chief town of the western portion New South Wales, situated on the Macquarie 122 miles S.W. of Sydney, with which it is by rail. Since its foundation in 1815 it grown very steadily, owing to the richne of soil, which is admirably suited to cereals; but discovery of gold at Ophir, 27 miles distant, a great impulse to its prosperity, and in 1862 was made a municipality. It po e es well-built and public buildings, is the seat of an and Roman Catholic bishopric, and con tanneries, soap-works, and other factories. and other precious stones are found in neighbourhood. Bathurst Island lies 120 miles W. of Port North Australia, and is of triangular measuring about 30 miles from angle to is densely wooded, except towards the west. Bathybius. When alcohol is added to sea the sulphate of lime in the latter is deposited ) Baton-sinister. as a gelatinous ma or precipitate; some of this, containing minute organic calcareous bodies (cocco spheres, etc.), when first found was described as an organism. It was supposed to cover great areas ef the deep ocean floors with ma es of protoplasmic slime.