THE CITY OF SYDNliY. 



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THE SKA-SIDK WALK, Ol"IT.U DOMAIN. 



also most of the sun and drought proof 

 scrubs of the western plains, with the 

 exception of salt-bush, the great fodder- 

 plant of the interior, which, with the 

 fragrant myall and the vast tribe of aca- 

 cias, thrives well. Lime-trees resist the 

 humid heat, and coffee plants from Ceylon 

 and palms from Brazil withstand the cold 

 of the Sydney winter. Scientific botany 

 has not been neglected in the Gardens. 

 There is a small museum containing a 

 good and well-arranged collection, while 

 for the benefit of students plants and 

 trees are described by their botanic titles, 

 as well as, wherever practicable, by their 

 common and familiar names. 



South and east of the Gardens lies 



the general public Domain. A pleasant carriage-drive leads round by " Mrs. Macquarie's 

 Chair" a favourite rendezvous on holidays, as it is a commanding position from which to 

 view the Harbour. On regatta days, or when a man-o'-war is leaving, this is practically 

 a grand-stand. From the "Chair" the drive returns past the Public Baths to the Director's 



residence, from which point there are three exits one into 

 the valley of Woolloomooloo, another past the Art Gallery to 

 St. Mary's Cathedral, and a third into Macquarie Street, the 

 road which connects the two latter passing at the rear of the 

 Houses of Parliament and the Infirmary. The entire drive, 



which is naturally 

 much appreciated, is 

 beautiful throughout, 

 and in some parts 

 strikingly picturesque. 

 Hyde Park is 

 practically a continua- 

 tion of the Outer 

 Domain, being cut off 

 from it by only an 

 intervening road. At 

 the northern entrance 

 of the broad prome- 

 nade which runs down 

 its centre stands a 



fine bronze statue of the late Prince Consort. Facing it in Chancery Square, within 

 a railed space fronting St. James's Church, is also a bronze statue of the Queen, on a 

 granite pedestal. Hyde Park was reserved in the first instance as a race-course for the 



MRS. MACQUARIE S CHAIR. 



