THE CITY OF SYDNEY. 



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admitted to be an unsatisfactory arrangement, 

 and the Government has erected large meat- 

 sheds provided with refrigerating rooms at a 

 railway siding at Pyrmont. This has been clone 

 with a view to encourage the killing of cattle 

 in the country, so as to s.ave the animals the 

 long and deteriorating journey, and bring the 

 meat into the city in better condition. Should 

 this system be largely 

 developed the impor- 

 tance of the city sale- 

 yards will be greatly 

 diminished. 



Farther along the 

 railway line is situated 

 the great cemetery of 

 Rookwood, a veri- 

 table city of the dead, 

 and between this and 

 P ar ramat t a are 

 several manufacturing 

 establishments the 

 largest of which is 

 that at Clyde of 

 Hudson Brothers, 

 who migrated from 

 town to get the ad- 

 vantage of space. 

 The traffic on the 

 present line proving 

 too great for the 

 accommodation fur- 

 nished, a double line 

 from Sydney to Par- 

 ramatta is now.beino r 



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constructed, a work which when completed will involve the expenditure of several millions. 

 In addition to the original railway from Sydney to Parramatta two other lines have 

 lately been constructed, and these are creating new suburban districts. The first is the 

 South Coast Line, which, crossing the George's River, climbs the high land beyond, and 

 runs through somewhat rugged and picturesque country to Wollongong. At Waterfall 

 Station, twenty miles from Sydney, this line reaches an elevation of seven hundred and 

 twenty feet. The other railway, which acts as a suburban outlet, is the line connecting 

 Sydney with Newcastle. It turns off to the north, eight miles from Sydney, and crossing 

 the; Parramatta River climbs the slopes on the northern side through the pretty village 



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CLIFF-FACE STAIR-WAV, 

 DARI.INCIIURST. 



