John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa . eatre around the bay it might be classedamong the loveliest in the world ; but the harbor is onlyseen in the elegant suburbs of Darling Point, PottsPoint, Elizabeth Bay, Rose Bay, etc. The city properis built pretty much on the flat in the hollow of the gulf,and bears a striking resemblance to some of the townsof Lancashire and Yorkshire, such as Manchester, Leedsor Bradford. But if the town strikes you as merely onemore gigantic monument erected to British activity—just think a moment,
John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa . eatre around the bay it might be classedamong the loveliest in the world ; but the harbor is onlyseen in the elegant suburbs of Darling Point, PottsPoint, Elizabeth Bay, Rose Bay, etc. The city properis built pretty much on the flat in the hollow of the gulf,and bears a striking resemblance to some of the townsof Lancashire and Yorkshire, such as Manchester, Leedsor Bradford. But if the town strikes you as merely onemore gigantic monument erected to British activity—just think a moment, a town of four hundred thousandinhabitants, where sixty years ago there were but a few 56 JOHN BULL & CO. convicts—the suburbs, built upon the points that jut outinto the harbor, arrest your admiration by their surpris-ing beauty. Many of the houses here are perfect httlepalaces, among others, the one which was inhabitedwhen I was in Sydney by Lady Martin, widow of thegreat Australian jurisconsult. The view from the houseand grounds was fairy-like in its beauty, and wherever ^ •-w-:^.-i; VIEW OF SYDNEY FROM LAVENDER BAY. one turned in the suburbs of Sydney fresh beauties ofscene met the eye. In the Museum, a great shanty in brick which disfig-ures the park, is to be found a collection of picturessigned by some of the greatest masters; but the thingwhich struck me as most noteworthy was a collectionof water-colors, of which the director, Mr. Montefiore,himself an artist of talent, has a right to be proud. JOHN BULL & CO. 57 In spite of the lovely climate which Sydney enjoys,the parks are not frequented by society. You look invain for cafes or any attraction of that kind. They aresimply great fields, rather well kept, where, as in Londonparks, meet together the street orators, the socialists, theanarchists and the unemployed. This by day. As nightcomes on, their place is taken by lovers who come to coo to one another on the benches or loll about onthe grass. But if th
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