The heyday of the riverboat trade may have passed, but the heritage-listed wharf at Echuca hasn't run out of steam.AT THE HEIGHT OF THE paddle-steamer era, journalist John Stanley James sat on a bank of the Murray River at Echuca and took in the hubbub of daily life. It was 1884 and the small Victorian town, home to Australia's largest inland port and a growing timber industry, was bustling.
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机译：河船贸易的鼎盛时期可能已经过去了，但在伊丘卡（Echuca）被列入遗产名录的码头并没有耗尽蒸汽。在轮船蒸笼时代的高度，记者约翰·斯坦利·詹姆斯（John Stanley James）坐在埃丘卡（Echuca）的墨累河岸上并吸收了日常生活的喧嚣那是1884年，维多利亚小镇，这里是澳大利亚最大的内陆港口和不断发展的木材工业的所在地，熙熙tling。
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