Show SCENT BOTTLE one of the oddest ornaments of which abich a city ever boasted stands in sydney australia it Is called the scent bottle of sydney and it Is for or the purpose of drawing the gases from the sewerage system of 0 the city it is constructed of brick wor work k bended over with cement stucco and is eighty seven feet high to the top of the casting surmounting the brick work the scent bottle was built in 1857 and Is connected with the old system of city sewers in pitt castlereagh Castle reagh and elizabeth streets sydney by means of a branch up bathurst street when the shift shaft was completed it was intended to purify the air escaping from the sewer by means of charcoal and trays brayn containing charcoal were placed in the bottom of the shaft so that all or ajr escaping from the sewer must pass pasa me material this was however round found inoperative and was discontinued subsequently fire was suggested but this in turn proved unsatisfactory the quantity of air exhausted from the shaft annually is about cubic feet a fact that is ascertained by what is called measure the scent bottle is not an eyesore its business is so disguised that it h lr an object of beauty and is readily mistaken for a monument indeed it i is the biggest most conspicuous and 4 t ST SCENT BOTTLE picturesque of all the notable monuments in new south wales walea |