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Journal Article
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2024
Overview
[…] Yesterday some of us had the hardihood to brave the element and venture on shore, Father, Madre and self being of the party […] We reached Adelaide at 12.30 and at once did King William St. and had a look at some of the more prominent buildings – making some necessary if unromantic purchases. We had lunch at a very one-horse place which a bobby recommended to us as the best in Adelaide. After that we made a horse-tram journey out to see the cathedral which is a very beautiful little building with a Lady Chapel – fancy one in Melbourne. I dropped into the zoo and had a look round: I was very keen on seeing their rhinoceros but found it was these many years extinct. Father and Madre went on to the gallery where I met them. We had a very enjoyable half-hour there. There was no time for more. It is really a more interesting gallery than Melbourne as tho’ smaller it has fewer encumbrances in the way of trash and several jolly good pictures – Watts, Leighton, Bouguereau, Rossetti, etc. It is really a splendid gallery for Adelaide. We hadn't time for anything more as it was too wet to go up Mount Lofty. So we shopped and teaed and after that we came back […]
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Cambridge University Press
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