ILLAWARRA  , a beautiful and fertile

district of New South Wales, Australia, extending from a point 33 M . S. of Sydney, along the coast southwards for 40 M. to Shoalhaven . It is thickly populated, and supplies Sydney with the greater part Redon, Vitre, Dol, Dinard and Cancale are the towns of chief importance and are separately noticed . At Combourg there is a picturesque chateau of the 14th and 15th centuries where Chateaubriand passed a portion of his early life . St Aubin-du-Cormier has the ruins of an important feudal fortress of the 13th century built by the dukes of Brittany for the protection of their eastern frontier . Montfortsur-Meu has a cylindrical keep of the 15th century which is a survival of its old ramparts .