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Title: The web of empire : a diary of the imperial tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York in 1901
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919 Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922, ill Martino, Eduardo de, d. 1912
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and company, limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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spacious park. It is no noon, and the reception is fixed for 2 oclock, but the dense the shore of the little bay in which the Ophir ind on the heights above wait patiently fo the iiime. Punctually at the ajfrom the war-ships, fully dress. barge with the Royal Sta ioothly to the landing-stage, greeted by c cheers of the assembled multitude. In decorated pavilion erected for the State and civic officials, amber of ■ SIUOQXAH Y3MQY2 .6483883 WHOIH JAYOfl 2I3HT 30 GLIOMA J 3> sentatioi e reserved for anotherceremonial, therefore, their Royal:. and suite take their places in the carriagesand drive in procession by a long zigzag route throughmost of the principal streets to Govern Sydney is a very differentUnlike its young rival,rding to a preconceived\ sloping down gradu,. jstralian cities irly on the which jut nto Port Jackson,. ■ self to the irregular topographicaland t tual wants of the inhabitants, look very far ahead into the■ here is about the pibeen perhaps not vr of th<
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vi BRISBANE AND SYDNEY 187 Certainly the streets are narrower, and have steepergradients, than those of the Victorian capital ; and theyhave not such an incongruous, unfinished appearance.While Melbourne, with a population of 460,000, hashurriedly spread out in all directions over an area of6000 acres, Sydney, with about as large a population,has confined itself to an area of less than half thatextent (2600). The streets, however, through whichwe pass on our zigzag route are not nearly so narrowand tortuous as I had been led to expect. With a fewexceptions they are quite broad enough for practicalpurposes, and most of them are parallel or at right-angles to each other. The decorations are not somassive in style as in the Victorian capital, but quiteas effective. The keynote is a combination of archingand festooning—arches and festoons of evergreens byday, and arches and festoons of electric lamps by night.The long vistas of trailing greenery produced in thisway are strikingly origin

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