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northern end of Great King Street, and not far from the Botanical Gardens. It consists 

 of a hall, ninety feet long by forty-five feet broad, with two galleries and an extensive 

 basement, and it is enriched with upwards of six thousand specimens of natural history, 

 of which the most striking is the perfect skeleton of a gigantic whale depending from 

 the cross-beams between the upper and lower galleries. Behind the hall is situated the 



library, containing more than one thousand nine hundred works 

 on natural history. The Museum is connected with the University, 

 which stands not far off, on a reserve of eight acres, near the 

 Water of Leith, whose shallow pebbly bottom occupies the near 

 foreground of our sketch. It is a striking-looking building, very 



solidly built, and fitted up inter- 

 nally on the most approved style. 

 Its library contains about four 

 thousand volumes. The Hospital, 

 with its grounds, occupies an entire 

 block five acres in area. Another 

 square block constitutes the North 

 Dunedin Recreation Ground, the 

 sides planted with trees, and the 

 central space open. From this 

 point, it is but a short walk along 

 Great King Street to the Botanical 

 and Acclimatization Gardens, at 

 the entrance to which the road- 

 way sweeps off to the charming 

 little suburb of the North-cast 

 Valley. From the Gardens proper 

 a little wooden bridge spans a 



small stream or creek, and affords the traveller access to the Domain, which appears to 

 consist largely of the primeval bush. In the roacl outside, the trams are filling up with 

 loads of passengers for the city and its southern suburbs, but for the nonce the visitor 

 may elect to take a solitary walk up the steep little acclivity to the Northern Cemetery, 

 where many of the early settlers, "after life's fitful fever," are lying at rest in their narrow 

 homes. Some of the monuments are handsome in design, and most of the grave enclo- 

 sures bear witness to loving and watchful tending. Between the Cemetery and the small 

 basin of Pelichet Bay lies the oval enclosure known as the North Cricket Ground, while, 

 bounding the- horizon inland, stand the heights of Maori Hill, Roslyn and Mornington, 

 each of them giving its name to a separate borough. More remote from view, and in 

 close proximity to the ocean beach, at the southern end of the city, extend the suburban 

 boroughs of St. Kilda, South Dunedin and Caversham. Right behind, and on the slopes 

 of the hills which one passes in approaching Dunedin, is situated the borough of West 

 Harbour, or, as it is more familiarly and prettily termed, Ravensbourne. So that this 

 large centre of population practically consists of a congeries of eleven closely related 

 boroughs, which have agreed to divide and govern. 



THE DUNEDIN UNIVERSITY. 



