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been any large efforts made to impart an aspect of civilization to this Park. Its manage- 

 ment is in the hands of trustees, who get a grant of three thousand pounds a year to 

 spend on its preservation and improvement, and with that they can do little more than 

 open up roadways. The natural ruggedness and freedom have been largely and wisely 

 preserved ; it is a bit of original Australia kept to recall to us what the coast country 

 was like in the earliest days ; it is a bit of wild nature within easy reach of the civili- 

 zation of a great metropolis ; it is an uncultivated botanic garden in which survive the 

 native floral beauties of the land; it is a wilderness for those who like the change from 

 hot and dusty streets ; it is, and will probably long continue, a place where the labours 

 and worries of town may be temporarily forgotten, and where on all holidays the multi- 

 tude may get out and find scope for the free enjoyment of all innocent natural propen- 

 sities. It is the great Park of the future, and though it may remain a wild preserve, 

 the railway will soon bring the long line of southern suburbs close up to its edge. 



