THE CITY OF SYDNEY. 



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Milk Beach and the battery reserve of Shark's 

 Point. From Rose Bay to Boncli Bay on the 

 ocean beach was once an old Harbour mouth, 

 which has been gradually filled and choked up by the slow washings of ocean sand. 



Near the snowy span of Milk Beach is an old house possessing an " historic 

 interest ; its builder having been no other than Wentworth, that renowned Australian to 

 whom the colony owes its Constitution. He is buried close at hand, and the little 

 mausoleum that marks his resting-place is a spot much visited by all who take an 

 interest in the history of Australia. About the entrance of the Harbour the traveller will 

 have continual remembrances of names familiar in the annals of the colony, for a 

 number of her statesmen have settled on the various reaches of the Port. 



Passing Vaucluse Bay and Parsley Bay, and the cluster of rocks known as the 

 " Bottle and Glass," the broad sweep of Watson's Bay is reached. This is a favourite 

 holiday-resort, and also the nearest landing-place for those who wish to climb the South 

 Head, and look down on the long wash of the Pacific, and the green curling waves 

 that break into pools and cascades of snowy foam at the feet of the rugged cliffs. On 

 the summit of the cliff is the great light-house, the reflection of whose electric-beam is 

 seen for sixty miles out at sea. Between the light-house and the Inner South Head is a 

 fissure in the seaward face of the cliff, known as "Jacob's Ladder," to be attempted only 

 by an agile climber, down which descended the brave Icelandic lad who took succour to 

 the Dnnbars sole survivor, lying on a ledge above the tragic " Gap." Here, too, frown- 

 ing grimly above fair green mounds of turf, are the great guns pointing out to sea, and 

 nearer the Inner Head others of heavier metal are fixed on pivots in pits cut in the 

 rock. Below them is a torpedo depot, and at Camp Cove is the Pilot Station, to 

 which is attached a steamer kept in constant readiness for disaster or emergency. Right 

 out beyond the guns, and almost on the extreme edge of the Inner South Head, stands 

 the Hornby Light-house, with its striped tower, the fixed red light of which makes 

 so noticeable a feature in the darkness when entering the Sydney Heads by night. 



