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harbour trends suildeuly to tlie west, thus rumpletely shutting 

 out the swell iVdui the ocean. In ten minutes at'ter leaving the 

 Atlantic the steamer is saf'el\' moored at the wharf, in the still 

 waters of a perfectly land-locked harhour. Ve-sels of the largest 

 tonnage can enter at all ])eriods of the tide, the rise of whicli 

 does not exceed four feet. Between Signal Hill and Fort Am- 

 herst, at the entrance, the Narrows are al)0ut 1,400 feet in 

 width ; but at th.e nan-owest jiart Ijetween Pancake and Chain 

 Rocks, the channel is not more than 600 feet Avide. The har- 

 bour is al)out a mile in length, and half a mile in width. It is 

 deep with a mud bottom, and in the centre it is said to be 90 feet 

 in depth. Of its size, it would be ditiicidt to tind a finer harliour, 



STKEKTS, ETC. 



The city is Imilt on the northern side of the harbour, on a 

 site which coidd hardly be surpassed. From the water's edge 

 the ground rises with a slope till the summit is reached, where 

 there is a large level space. Along the face of this slo})e the 

 main streets run, and the city is rapidly extending itself in all 

 directions. An excellent system of sewerage is laid out, which- 

 ■when completed will render the sanitary condition of the city 

 superior to that of any other jau the Atlantic seaboard. Already 

 it is a very healthy city. Three principal streets — Water, Dusk- 

 worth and Gower Streets — run parallel with the harbour and 

 with one another, and are intersected by a number of cross- 

 streets, running nortli and south. The former follow the sinu- 

 osities of the harliour, so that they are irregular and winding. 

 The new part built since the great fire of 1892 is considerably 

 improved, and the large shops and stores in the eastern half 

 of Water Street are a great advance on those destroyed liy 

 the tire. Duckworth Street has also been better laid out ami 

 much improved. 



HOUSES, VILLAS, ETC. 



On the south side of the harbour the hills spring so aliruptly 

 from the water that little more than a sufficient site for a range 

 of warehouses and oil factories could be scooped out. From the 



