MOUNT EGMONT.
Egmont is ono of tho most beautiful mountains in New Zealand. It has a perfect equihtoral cone of an almost exactly corresponding curve, terminating in what seems from below a peak barely wide enough to stand on ; its snowy cap extending in the winter nearly half-way down its steep sides, all growing out of a lrmgnificent forest of the richest foliage, of rata and other trees of gigantic growth, afford attractions which it is no wonder induce numerous parties overy season to undertake the somewhat severe task of its ascent. The great difficulty of tho undertaking consists in the fact that about two-thirds, and that the steepest, of the ascent, consists solely of loose scoria and ash, which
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9123, 2 July 1891, Page 17 (Supplement)
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120MOUNT EGMONT. Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9123, 2 July 1891, Page 17 (Supplement)
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