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supply of eighty gallons per head to each consumer ; but in hot days the 

 demand for baths and for the Garden are so great that this quantity is not 

 found to be half enough, and improvements are to be effected. The Yan 

 Yean system has cost ^2,000,000, and now the Watts River is to be 

 brought in, and as the engineers speak of ^750,000 being necessary, the 

 presumption is that ;£ 1,000,000 will be required. It is a grand spectacle to 

 see a full head of Yan Yean turned on to a fire, say at night, when there is 

 no strain to abate the maximum pressure. The flames are not so much put 

 out as they are smashed out of existence. On a wooden building the jet 

 will act like a battering-ram, sending everything flying. No engine is 



The Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne. 



required in these cases ; the hose is wound on a light big-wheeled reel, and 

 the instant an alarm is given a brigade can start off at racing speed and 

 come into action on the moment of arrival. 



As to industries, a list would be wearisome. A hundred tall chimneys 

 make known to the observer the fact that Melbourne is becoming a great 

 manufacturing centre. 



The reserves between the city and its suburbs must ever be the greatest 

 charm of Melbourne. To leave Melbourne on the south, you must pass 

 through the mile-long Albert Park, with its ornamental water and its hand- 

 some carriage drives, or you must saunter through Fawkner Park or the 

 Domain. Yarra Park and the Botanic Gardens are to the south-east, and 

 they link with the beautiful Fitzroy Gardens. Carlton Gardens crown the 



