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-hands of the first English occupiers, as much so as a newly discovered territory in the interior of Australia. Had the authorities of the first settlement thought proper to adopt the system already at that time enforced in laying out even the smallest town in the most remote district of every Australian Colony, they might have created here one of the most beautiful and salubrious cities on one of the grandest sites, and on the shores of one of the most magnificent harbours in the world.
world. But it appears that the early Civil and Military Authorities, though invested with practically unlimited power, made no adequate provision for drainage, for sanitation, for public buildings, and reserves for other public purposes, for future fortifications, for water supply - not even for the proper laying out of the streets. Whereas every village in Australia has streets one chain (sixty-six (66) feet) wide, even the two principal streets in this great City, namely, the Queen's Road and the