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Take a Seat on Mrs. Macquaries Chair!

Take a Seat on Mrs. Macquaries Chair!

Mrs. Macquarie’s Chair is an exposed sandstone rock cut into the shape of a bench, on a peninsula in the Sydney Botanical Gardens, hand carved by convicts from sandstone in 1810 for Governor Macquarie’s wife Elizabeth.  The peninsula itself is named Mrs. Macquaries Point.  It is located at the end of Mrs. Macquaries Road near the Royal Botanical Gardens...