352 



RECORDS OF THR AUSTRAIJAN MDSRUM. 



" The ground [iu 1822] where now stands the Museum, Grammar School, and 

 the buildings facing College Street to its intersection with the Old Soutli 

 Head Road [Oxford Street] was enclosed by a brick wall, and I think 

 was the propertj' of the Chief Justice [Forbes], and by some was called 

 his garden ; the brick wall funned part of the western boundary of the 

 Riley Estate." 



A poi'tioii of this same ground referred to in tlie two previous quota- 

 tions, that on which the Museum stands'*, is distinctly referred to in 

 already quoted official documents (p. 850) as a "reserve for government 

 purposes," consequently it could not have formed part of the Chief Jus- 

 tice's garden. Support is lent to this view by an old plan in the possession 

 of the City Council (Fig. 10) for a copy of which I am greatly indebted 

 to Mr. A. H. Bi-igg, City Surveyor. This explains the position by show- 

 ing Sir Francis Forbes' (Chief Justice's) grant as at the western end of 

 the block between Stanley and Francis Streets, and from the latter to the 

 Old Toll House, which stood at the coi'ner of College and Liverpool 

 Streets. 



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Pirt. 10. 



Portion of i)lan ti'accd from Old Plan in possessinn of tlic City Council of Sydney 



ilated Oct. Hrd, 1844, showing the position of the " (xovernment lian<l," 



f>n a portion of which the Museum now stands. 



Thel'e is even an oldei' plan in e.xistem'c of a pai-t of this " reserve 

 for Grovernment purposes," mentioned in Mi-. Perry's letter (p. 350), 

 showing the present Museum site as a poition of the " Old Convicts' 

 Garden" (Fig. 11), the proposed Park-William Street bisecting it. This 

 plan, now in the Mitchell Library, and signed by the Surveyor-lTeneral, 

 Sir T. L. Mitchell, is entitled as follows : — 



" Sketch of a General Plan for the Regular Extension of the Streets of 

 Sydney." 



«n Fowles again fell into eri'or wIumi lie saidtiie Museum site was at the "corner 

 of William an-l Stanl.-y Streets" (Sydney in IH48. etc., 1878, p. 84). 



