THE CITY OF SYDNEY. 



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Off the mouth of 

 Wooljoomooloo Bay 

 lies Garden Island, 

 where one of the first 

 gardens was formed. 

 It is now given up 

 to the Imperial Go- 

 vernment as a naval 

 depot, and the original 

 form of the island is 

 largely lost through 

 the alterations made 

 to fit it for its pre- 

 sent requirements. At 

 Pott's Point business 

 ceases and pleasure 

 takes its place, for 

 here begin those 

 water - side mansions 

 and gardens for which 

 Sydney Harbour is so 

 justly famed. The 

 climate gives every 

 encouragement to the 

 florist and the land- 

 scape gardener. Frost 

 is unknown along 

 these Harbour slopes, 

 the extremes of sum- 

 mer heat are tem- 

 pered by the ocean 

 breezes, and flowers 

 can be gathered and 

 roses will bloom the 

 winter long. The 

 mean temperature of 

 Sydney is two de- 

 grees above .that of 

 Nice, and only three 

 degrees lower than 

 that of Messina. 



Here Nature gives heightened effect to the labours of Art. The myrtle flourishes beside 

 the orange-tree, and hyacinths burst into all their florid glory with the opening days of 

 spring. At Pott's Point the rock-face to the water was originally a steep slope, and the 



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