THE CITY OF MELBOURNE. 



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one end and Mordialloc at the other, the nascent township of Carrum lying between. 



The extension of railway communication southward has led to the formation of new 

 sea-side villages and the rapid 

 growth of those already existent. 

 Men tone, about fourteen miles, and 

 Carrum, twenty-one miles from Mel- 

 bourne, are both of recent date ; 

 while Mordialloc and Frankston 

 have been favourite marine retreats 

 for upwards of a quarter of a 

 century. But they have enlarged 

 their boundaries since they were 

 entered by the iron-horse ; and at 

 holiday seasons there is a great in- 

 flux of visitors from the metropolis. 



North of Mordialloc, Red Cliff 

 and Picnic Point open out, and the 

 former, smitten by the rays of the 

 westering sun, resembles, at the 

 distance it is seen from the deck 

 of a vessel, an old brick fortress 

 that has been dismantled in some 

 by-gone century, and mellowed in 

 colour by the hand of time. Cot- 

 tages, villa residences, and family 

 mansions begin to diversify the 

 scene and to enliven by the bright- 

 ness of their colour the sombre 

 line of ti-tree scrub, which follows 

 the fluctuating contour of the sea- 

 beach. Then Brighton comes in 

 view, with the campanile of its town 

 hall rising above the clustering 

 roofs, which appear to be em- 

 bosomed in a mass of indigenous 

 and exotic foliage. Along the hori- 

 zon the silhouette of the Dandenong 

 Ranges is sharply defined against 

 the eastern sky, and beyond them, 

 somewhat to the northward, the 

 Plenty Ranges loom above a stratum 

 of, mist which obscures their base. 



Brighton has now a population of six thousand inhabitants, covering so large an 

 area as to require three railway stations for their accommodation. One of its streets 



