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down hovels are strangely intermixed with the Parliament Houses, the public 

 gardens, and the wharves. On the other side of Queen Street the same 

 cross-streets climb steep ridges to the terraces, where high and broken 

 ground offer cool breezy sites for streets filled with dwelling-houses. 



The diversified surface of the ground over which the town of Brisbane 

 has spread itself, the broad noble river which winds through it, doubling back 

 almost on itself, as if loth to quit the city it has called into existence, and 

 the picturesque range of wooded hills which closes the view to the westward, 



Valley of the River Brisbane, Queensland. 



constitute a scene of great beauty. An artist roaming round the town would 

 find objects of interest everywhere. From the elevated terraces he could 

 look down on the main town, with the river, a broad band of silver, winding 

 through it, and his horizon would include the blue peaks of the main range 

 to the westward, and the shimmer of the sunlight on the great landlocked 

 sheet of Moreton Bay to the eastward. 



One of the sights of Brisbane is the Garden of the Acclimatisation Society 

 —a body supported partly by private subscription and partly by Government 

 endowment. In these Gardens are collected a vast number of trees and 



