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8 Y D NEY COVE IN I 80I 2_ '_ ' - Help
8 Y D NEY COVE IN I 80I
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SYDNEY COVE «CIRCULAR OUAY IN 1SSO Help

SYDNEY COVE «CIRCULAR OUAY IN 1SSO

SYDNEY COVE IN 1801 AND 1888.

PHILLIP landed in a small bay, into which rippled " a
fine run of fresh water, stealing silently through a
thick wood." This was Sydney Cove-the locality
of the present Oireular Quayj- Our-artist's interesting
sketches will show a striking comparison. The repre-
sentation of the Cove at the commencement of the
century is accurately reproduced from the very scarce
and interesting work by M. F. Peron, published at Paris
in[1804, and entitled " Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres

Australes." The first small significant growths of the
place are abundantly visible. The reader will notice the
bridge at the head of the Cove ; this was built over the
"Tank Stream," hence the name of the street which
occupies this old position-Bridge Street. What a con-
trast appears in 1888 ! Tens of thousands of tons of
magnificent shipping lining the stately quays ; miles of

palatial stores and offices fringing the water's edge ; -
the bay furrowed by hundreds of steamers ; the noise
and clamour which tell of a teeming and restless popula
tion ;- these are the new facts which have invaded a
solitude which was primeval. Few things, indeed, are
more interesting, pictorially, than to u look here, upon
this picture, and on this !"

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