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A USTRALASIA ILL USTRA TED. 



over land that has been won from the sea, and at their back steep heights over which 

 the city climbs in irregular fashion and hides its confines on their farther sides. Away 



to the left is the narrow tongue of flat land 

 that connects the Peninsula with the site of 

 the city and the gleaming waters of the Pacific, 

 chanting a low monotone as they roll lazily 

 into the broad strand of the ocean beach 

 with its low sand-hills. To the right the 

 horizon is bounded by the elevated land that 



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sweeps away in the direction 

 of Port Chalmers. Dunedin 

 is a very attractive and pre- 

 tentious city, lacking only a 

 harbour such as that of Auck- 

 land or Wellington to give 

 it pre-eminent rank. From the bridge over the line at the fine Railway Station one may 

 gain a moderately good view of the business heart of the place, throbbing with the deep 

 pulsations of active commercial life. Rising from a slightly elevated site to the left stands 

 the First Presbyterian Church, a stately and well-proportioned edifice built of the white 



si I;M:S IN AND AROUND DUNEDIN. 



