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eastern boundary to this part of the city, one side of it being all public reserve ; in 

 fact, it was partly carved out of the original Domain, which was pushed back to this 

 line. The northern end is almost wholly devoted to wool-stores, which have one face to 

 it and another to the Circular Quay. South of the lodge-gates Macquarie Street is 

 devoted to private residences, and makes a street-front equal in beauty to that of any 

 city in the world. The windows of the houses look out on the Domain and the 

 Harbour beyond, the balconies commanding all the moving panorama of the daily ileet of 

 incoming and outgoing vessels, while the sea breeze comes up fresh and cool ; indeed, 

 it would be difficult to find anywhere so charming a residential street so close to the 

 centre of the commercial operations of a great city. 



The original Macquarie Street began at the corner of Bent Street, where stands the 

 Free Public Library. In the Domain are the Parliament Houses, the old Infirmary 

 and the Mint. The first-named is a very plain building, which has been added to from 

 time to time to meet the demand for increased accommodation, and is therefore an 

 architectural jumble. Designs for a grand structure have been prepared, but Parliament 

 has been more liberal to the Civil Service than to itself, and is still content with its 

 old quarters. The front of the Infirmary was pulled down some years ago, having 

 become unfit for hospital purposes. Plans for a new and costly structure were prepared 

 and partly carried out, when with a change of Administration came a change of policy. 

 Objections were made to putting a large hospital so close to the populous parts of the 

 city, and the work of building was suspended. The Mint was an adaptation of an old 

 building, and the front is in the antiquated style of the Macquarie age of architecture. 



The end of Macquarie Street opens out into the broad plaza facing Hyde Park. 

 The old and ugly Immigration Barracks occupy a site on the east a noble and 

 commanding position, on which a new public building is to be erected. On the other 

 side stands St. James's Church a characteristic red-brick building of the okl style and 

 next to it is the Supreme Court, also plain and dingy, soon to be superseded by some- 

 thing more befitting the site. Next to the Court, and facing Elizabeth Street, is the 

 Registrar-General's Office, where are kept all the archives relating to births, deaths and 

 marriages, all statistical documents, and the deeds and ledgers connected with the regis- 

 tration of titles to land. Macquarie Street was formerly continued through Hyde Park, but 

 the latter was closed and turned into a broad promenade, the street traffic being deflected 

 to the east along College Street past St. Mary's Cathedral, which, though still incomplete, 

 is the finest piece of ecclesiastical architecture in Sydney. In a line with this specimen 

 of Gothic though separated from it by intervening park-land in which is situated the 

 Sydney Bowling-green is the Museum, an imposing structure in a purely Grecian style 

 and on a commanding site. It stands at the corner of Park and College Streets. The 

 Boomerang Road, the route followed by the 'buses running to Woolloomooloo, begins at St. 

 Mary's Cathedral and ends at the foot of William Street, which ceases at this point to bear 

 the name of Park Street. This is the great artery of traffic for Woolloomooloo and Dar- 

 linghurst, and the omnibus route for the water-side suburbs beyond. The road following 

 the old steep and inconvenient gradient runs down into the valley, and, passing the William 

 Street Post Office, still more precipitously up to the ridge beyond. On its summit the road 

 breaks into six branches ; namely, the Darlinghurst Road, Victoria Street South, William 



