It is the largest city of Australasia, and fills the post with honor and credit.

It has one specialty; this must not be jumbled in with those other things.

It is the mitred Metropolitan of the Horse-Racing Cult.

Its race-ground is the Mecca of Australasia.

On the great annual day of sacrifice--the 5th of November, Guy Fawkes's Day--business is suspended over a stretch of land and sea as wide as from New York to San Francisco, and deeper than from the northern lakes to the Gulf of Mexico; and every man and woman, of high degree or low, who can afford the expense, put away their other duties and come.