NEW ZEALAND SCENERY.
The editor of the * Scotsman' writes thus of New Zealand scenery :—At the top of Tauranga-Kuma you come upon a magnificent view. Great mountains are right and left of you. A profound chasm yawns between them. Trees and bush cover them to their summits. A splendidly-engineered road takes you down from top to bottom of the gorge. It sweeps in long zigzigs down the mountain side. Now you are seeing it far below you; now you are seeing it far above you. It is precipitous. It turns sharply round corners of projecting rock or round the ends of gullies—" Devil's elbows " they call these turnings here. All the time the magnificence of the gorge is being impressed upon you. The mountains seem to hide their heads in the heavens. The gulf below looks darker and darker. It is a spectacle not to be forgotten. Switzerland might match it if her icy peaks and bare rocky precipices were covered with luxuriant foliage. As it is, such New Zealand eeenery stands alone, unsurpassed—nay, so far as I know, unequalled.
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Evening Star, Issue 10339, 12 June 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)
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180NEW ZEALAND SCENERY. Evening Star, Issue 10339, 12 June 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)
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