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On the slopes of Middle Ridge, stretching away from the heights of Picnic Point on the Main Range above Toowoomba, the German vineyards lay facing the western sunset. Beyond Gabbinbar, on the crest of the Range, stood the homestead of Franz Meisenhelter.
From its verandas, one could look across the distant gulf of blue in which lay the dense scrubs through which the old Toll Bar Road was cut, and see away in the hazy blue of distance the peaks of the MacPherson Range on the northern boundary of New South Wales. Immediately below towered Table Top, an extinct volcano, scrub-clothed from its base to its summit. Picnic Point and Tic Hill stood out prominently away to the left; while below in a valley like a huge basin, nestled the town of Towoomba, the capital city of the Darling Downs, whose broad tree-decked streets were paved with the blue metal carried from the counter slope of the Great Main Range.