THE CITY OF SYDNEY. 



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feet and the grounds surrounding them 

 are relieved by small shrubberies and lawns. 



Beyond the Cathedral George Street 

 descends the slope of Brickfield Hill, the 

 street continuing broad, though irregular 

 in its alignment. It is a district of shops 

 of the less fashionable order ; but at the 

 foot of the hill on the Haymarket flat is 

 the great establishment of Messrs. Anthony 

 Hordern and Sons a Sydney imitation of 

 Whiteley's in London. From the Hay- 

 market George Street rises steeply towards 

 the Redfern Railway Station, before reach- 

 ing which Pitt Street converges into it at 

 a sharp angle. The tram-line, which forms 

 the main artery of communication with the 

 Railway Station and the southern and 

 western suburbs, is laid along Elizabeth 

 Street from Hunter Street to the Hay- 

 market, where it crosses Belmore Park in 

 a diagonal direction, and follows the trend 

 of Pitt Street into the broad plaza which 

 crowns the rise in front of the Redfern 

 Railway Station. 



Though running parallel to George 

 Street, and at no great distance from it, 

 Pitt Street was in the early days cut off 

 by the Tank Stream, nor was it continued, 

 as it is now, northward to the Quay, but 

 turned off at Hunter Street. The mouth 

 of the Tank Stream, in its natural forma- 

 tion, opened out, and what is now known 

 as Macquarie Place was once a water-side 

 street following the direction of the east 

 bank. It was not until after the flat 

 ground at the mouth of the Stream was 

 filled in that Pitt Street was continued 

 straight from Hunter Street to the Circular 

 Quay. The line of traffic, as thus com- 

 pleted, not only gives a better gradient 

 from the Quay all the way to the ridge 

 which follows the alignment of Bathurst 

 Street, but it affords, in a very striking 

 way, a close connection between the city 















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