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447 CHAPTKE L lie het idiiT h raLlii The lACQUARiE s rule be^tui uiKler lavouraulii aus^piceB. period of suspense after Bligli*H depusitioii was satisfactory to no one. Its terinination gladdened all. The new military defenders of the colony were his own regiment. No hitter remains of pa^t struggles would willingly have ^been kept in remetnhraiiee by the connnuDity. The general ^cordiality miglit have been at least for some years prnuu.>ted by a [>riulent Governor. He received loyal addresses, and ^when sworn in he made what the Stfthuff Gazette called Han aBimated speech at the grand parade. He was laborious ^and ambitious. He promoted discovery. He erected public buildings, and affixed his name to them. He gave it to natural and artificial objects. He woultl have been the founder of a new era if the eonstrurtion of ugly buildings could have conferred such a title. His wife has given her ■ name to a rocky spot called Mrs. Macquarie*s Chah", from which the lounger on the pictures(|ue promontories of the Governnieiit Domain in Syilney may admire the never- wearying charms of Port Jacksou. IShe planned the drive whicb winds around the jutting promontory and picturesque domain ; and it was her wish that the spot should be pre- sei*ved for the enjo}'nient of all. It is to l>e hoped, and is not improbable, that the uihabitants will never part with this public possession ; and thus the simple selection of a site of natural beauty may transmit the remembrance of the wife to a posterity which would otherwise not care fov K the husband. Her project of love wiv,^ eQw^fe^ sv