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the Perpendicular style, extending some 400 feet 
in length, situated on the top of a neighbouring 
eminence, forming a conspicuous and handsome 
feature in the Sydney landscape. The principal 
courts of justice are in King Street and at Darling- 
hurst. The first-mentioned, where the civil business 
is transacted, is a large rectangular building of brick- 
work, with arcaded front, decorated with Doric 
architecture. The Court-house at Darlinghurst, for 
criminal trials, is a fine stone building of the Doric 
order. In the rear is the gaol, occupying a large 
area, and built with spacious wards radiating from 
the centre. The private buildings or residences in 
the neighbourhood of Sydney are of a superior cha- 
racter, and are generally in the vicinity of beautiful 
recreation grounds. The fashionable quarter, par 
excellence , is the east end of the city, the su- 
burban localities stretching thence along the shore. 
Here are most of those splendid mansions of which 
glimpses are caught from the harbour, which they 
overlook ; while to the south rises the important 
town of Woolloomoolloo, which has become almost 
as large as Sydney, and much more fashionable. 
Beyond this we reach Elizabeth Bay and Rose Bay, 
Double Bay and Rush Cutter’s Bay, where cluster 
various villa residences of the wealthy families. 
Look where one will from the city to Darling Point, 
and even farther along the coast, there are more fine 
houses, many of which have been erected at great 
