THE CITY OF MELBOURNE. 



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There was a time when it was almost the only paved footpath in Melbourne, and it then 

 became, what it has continued to be ever since, the favourite rendezvous of young 

 people of both sexes with idle time upon their hands. It is to them what "the 



COLLINS STREET, LOOKING EAST. 



shady side of Pall Mall " was to the belles and bcanx of Westminster in the time of 

 the Regency, when Charles Morris wrote the song in which those words occur ; before 

 the elm-trees were cut down, and fashionable people had migrated to The Row, and The 

 Long Walk in Kensington Gardens. The chief music-shops, with their handsome facades, 

 are all on " The Block," with nests of teaching-rooms on the third floor ; and outside or 

 inside the establishment of Messrs. Allen and Sons, or Glen's, or Nicholson's, most of 



