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music and wicker-work, and the deaf and dumb the various employments for which they 

 may exhibit a special aptitude, the result being that the average cost of each person in 

 both Asylums does not exceed forty-five pounds a year. 



Between the grounds of these institutions, and well sheltered by trees, is the reserve 

 upon which the Wesley College has been built. It is one of the largest of the public 

 schools in or around Melbourne, standing third on the list as regards the number of 

 scholars, the Scotch College heading it with two hundred and ninety-nine, the Church of 

 England Grammar School taking the second place with two hundred and seventeen, and 

 the Wesley College coming third with an attendance of one hundred and fifty. 



Crossing the St. Kilda Road, which skirts the west side of the college grounds as 

 well as those of the charitable institutions, the visitor finds himself in Albert Park, 

 which embraces an area of five hundred and seventy acres, planted with various kinds 

 of pines, and with elm trees in clumps and avenues. It also contains an extensive 

 natural lagoon, deepened and widened so as to admit of boating and yachting on its 

 surface, and this is dotted with artificial islands. The great extent of this reserve ; its 

 open spaces for cricket, foot-ball, polo or lacrosse ; its pleasant drives, and its nearness 

 to the sea, combine to render it a very popular place of resort on Saturday afternoons ; 



and among the nu- 

 merous "lungs" of 

 Melbourne and its 

 suburbs this is pro- 

 bably the most valu- 

 able from a hygienic 

 point of view ; while 

 its area is so exten- 

 sive, that after three 

 large cricket grounds 

 have been carved off 

 for the special use of 

 as many clubs a large 

 area still remains. 

 The surroundings of 

 this fine and capa- 

 cious pleasure ground 

 have marked it out as 



the future Hyde Park or Bois de Boulogne of the 

 southern suburbs of Melbourne, and in 1885 steps 

 were taken for the establishment of something cor- 

 responding to Rotten Row. The movement was instituted and warmly supported by 

 Lady Loch, and the result was that on Friday afternoons during the summer months 

 the carriage-drive in Albert Park became a fashionable rendezvous where might be seen 

 the best horses and the best appointed equipages which the city and its environs could 

 turn out, and a large gathering of equestrians, as well as of spectators on foot a band 

 of music adding to the other attractions of the scene. 



ALL SAINTS CHURCH, 

 ST. KILDA. 



