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heads, the whole course of the bay, and the drive 
" round the rocks," a picturesque road that hugs the 
harbour and the town below, with its rugged background 
of mountains. Then let him make his way up endless 
wooden steps behind the town to the Catholic cemetery, 
where from above he looks down on Te Aro, the 
industrial portion, with the hospital, college barracks, 
and basin reserve, and on the other side on Thomdon, 
the fashionable quarter, with its pretty villas and 
gardens, and below Government House, Lampton Quay, 
the shipping, and principal thoroughfare of the town. 
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