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dimensions, a spacious riding-school, a masonic hall, a cricket ground in the Alb.-,t 

 Park second in importance only to that of the Melbourne Cricket Club in the Yarra 

 Park and one of the largest gasometers in the world, are also among thr features of 

 this suburb. These advantages are enhanced by the railway which runs through its very 

 centre, and which has two stations for the convenience of the inhabitants, who are thus 

 brought within from four to seven minutes' distance of Melbourne. 



At the foot of the hill on the north and east sides a hundred acres of what was 

 originally swamp-land are in process of reclamation, and are being rapidly covered by timbt.-r- 



THE ALUEKT PARK LAGOON. 



yards, saw-mills, rope-works, bonded stores, iron and brass foundries, breweries, engineering 

 establishments and manufactories of every description ; these afford employment to many 

 thousands of workmen residing for the most part in South Melbourne or in Port Melbourne. 



Quitting South Melbourne by way of the Albert Road, and reaching the borders 

 of the Government House Domain forming part of a reserve of two hundred and thirty- 

 five acres the visitor will notice, at the corner of the Domain Road, the fine collegiate 

 edifice with its central tower and cloister, its handsome memorial chapel, and its extensive 

 play and pleasure grounds which constitutes, with its roomy appurtenances, the Church 

 of England Grammar School. Founded in the year 1854, it numbers about two hundred 

 and twenty scholars on its rolls, and, like the Scotch College, has played an important 

 part in preparing for a career of public usefulness many of the men who now fill 

 prominent positions in the political, professional and mercantile life of \ ictoria. 



Entering the Domain by a gate facing the Grammar School, and turning to the left 

 on reaching the South Yarra Drive, the visitor presently finds himself in the vicinity of 



