VIEWS IN THE WAKATIP DISTRICT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4171, 1 July 1875, Page 3

VIEWS IN THE WAKATIP DISTRICT.

Messrs Burton Bros., whose views of scenery in Otago, including tlie West Coast, and of the Southern Alps in Canterbury, have done much to give people some conception of the grandeur and beauty of the mountains, lakes, and valleys of this island, are now about publishing a series of views taken in. the Wakatip district. The series will consist of no less than 125 photographs, which were taken by Mr A. H. Burton during a nine weeks' absence from Dunedin last summer. The views include a panorama of Queenstown and surrounding scenery, showing the Remarkable Range, the panorama consisting of five plates. There are views of One-mile Creek, showing picturesque nooks and corners of the glen through which the cretk runs. The photographs of Moke Lake, four in mi '.ber, are very beautiful, the wonderfully distinct shadows of the surrounding mountains reflected in the still waters of the lake, being taken in a very effective manner. There are numerous views on Allenden Creek, in the Moonlight Gorge, and on the Upper Moonlight. Moonlight Gorge is only about oue and a quarter mile' in length, but ajrnost every few steps taken along tlie track between its nearly perpendicular and, in places, overhanging walls, discloses new beauties, and of this pass, as it may bo called, Messrs Burton have no less than eleven different views. Of the Upper Moonlight, there are eight different views, some of them showing Mount Larkins. The series includes views of a splendid water fall from the glacier of iMi->unt Larkins. Get ting .the apparatus through this country, where there are even no tracks, and which is but little known, we are informed, was a work of great difficulty. Mr A..H. Burton informs us that Lake Luna, which he has takun frcm various points, is situate at the head of the left hand branch of the Moon light, and not. as shown in the large official map of the Province, at the head of the right, being marked down about twelve miles frtim where it is situate. Having got out of this mountainous region, and returned to Qoeensfcown, Mr Burton visited the head of the Wakatip Lake, of which localitjc he showa a fine panorama of the Lake, and of the mountains on the Glenorchy side, taken from near Kinloch. He has also views of scenery for a distance of some miles along the Martin's Bay track ; also, on the Greenstone, and of Rere or Emerald Lake.. One of this L?ke is a perfect gem. Not only that every obj,ct surrounding the Lake appears mirrored on its bosom, but the vegetation in the foreground, intervening between the spectator's eye and tho Lake, is so taken that every leaf appears with a remarkable distinctness. The selection of foreground in this view shows strongly the gift of being able to choose what will make an effective photograph. Messrs Burton have also " sun pictures" of the Shortburn, the Devil's Staircase, the Longburn, Falls ot the Ka'n-aran, Lake Hayes, and, the concluding one of the series, of Arrowtown. The series is most attractive, and is one the publication of which cannot fail to draw tourists to the beautiful L^ko district of Otngo,