THE CITY OF SYDNEY. 



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Harbour has been more and more a matter of complaint, and several have been the 

 projects for making a grand reformation along the whole fore-shore by the construction 

 of a continuous wharf, a new road and a railway. These, however, are at present only 

 schemes, but some fine profile for the water-frontage may find its place in an illustrut, ,'l 

 Sydney of. the future. At present the old city maintains in this quarter its ancient 

 form, varied only by the construction of longer and stronger jetties, and the erection of 

 new, capacious and handsome warehouses. Great 

 improvements have been made in this respect, 

 but they leave unaltered all the defects of the 

 primitive plan, and fndeed increase the cost 

 and difficulty of any comprehensive alterations. 

 As the line of water-frontage to Darlino- 

 Harbour runs nearly parallel to George Street, 

 the intervening streets necessarily take the same 

 general direction. The official loyalty of early 

 days was very effusive, and constantly assumed 

 the form of giving 

 to places the titu- 

 lar designations of 



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THE OLD WINDMILL AT MILLER'S POINT. 



members of the reigning family. 

 This tendency is seen in the names 

 Sussex Street, Kent Street, Clarence 

 Street and York Street, lying be- 

 tween George Street and the water. 



The rugged contour of the original ground in this part of 

 Sydney is still seen in the irregular way in which the houses 

 are pitched. To improve the gradients the streets have in 

 many places been cut down, and consequently every here and 

 there may be seen houses perched on the rock ten or twenty 

 feet above the level of the pathway, and their front-doors are 

 approached by cumbrous stone or wooden steps. Bit by bit, 

 however, such memorials of old-time Sydney are disappearing. 



These streets are the favourite haunts of persons connected with the shipping, and 

 especially of those engaged in the coasting and intercolonial trade. Produce-stores of 

 every kind and size abound, into which are unloaded cargoes of lucerne hay from the 

 Hunter River, maize from the coast farther north, potatoes from the south, and farm 

 produce from Tasmania, New Zealand, Victoria and South Australia. Crates of fowls, 



