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Till' ti'itciiio^ ai'coiiipaii) iii<^ this dofumt'iit liiid been lost when this 

 lettei' first came under my notice, bat fortunately another rough ti-acinp 

 (Fior. 9) to be refei-red to in the sequel as exhibiting additional land granted 

 to the Committee, waH found in the Museum archives. Here, on the 

 original site of one acre is shown as " foi-mer site of Museuin." 



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lu an intei-esting 

 article entitled "Old 

 Willinm-Street. Inter- 

 esting ITistoiy," etc., 

 by Miss Mary Salmon^? 

 we learn tliat : — 



" Where the Sydney 

 Museum now stands 

 in College-Street, was 

 high ground that had 

 a creek running along 

 one side of it, where 

 the boys fished for 

 eels .... The 

 ground where the 

 Grammar School, the 

 Museum, and the 

 William-Street Public 

 School stand"'** was 

 the property of Chief 

 Justice Forbes, and in 

 it he had a fine gar- 

 den, with a high bi'ick 

 wall that abutted on 

 the Riley Estate." 



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The site granted by His Excellency Sir George Gipps is thus referred 

 to in the '' Dowling Reminiscences," already mentioned. The woi*ding of 

 Miss Salmon's article is so similar I tliink these " Reminiscences " must 

 have been the source from which she obtained her information ; further- 

 more, both perpetuate the same mistake^^ : — 



" Evening News, February 13th, 1917. 



s** Yurong Street Public School. 



■■'' Dowling— Old Times, i.. No. 2, 190:3, p. 117. 



