Excerpt from The New Zealand Tourist Here are the dells of peace and plenilune, The hills of morning and the slopes of noon Here are the waters dear to days of blue, And dark green hollows of the noontide dew. We have no desire to detract from the merits of the Sister Colonies on the contrary, we should be gratified to find thousands of British, European and American tourists visiting Australia and Tasmania annually. But, at the same time, we deem it our duty to establish the fact that, for romantic and magnificent scenery, coupled with volcanic marvels, New Zealand is without a rival. Of course there are a few travellers to be met with now and again who are incapable of enjoying or appreciating the sublimities -of Nature. Matter-of-fact individuals who see everything with the eyes of Peter Bell A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. The stupendous grandam of our scenery would be wasted upon people of this stamp. That grand old Sage of the nineteenth century, Thomas Carlyle, has observed A man will see nothing in a scene or event, but what he comes to with the power of seeing. The justice of this remark is very apparent, for unless a person has an eye for the beautiful in nature, he cannot be induced to go in search of it. Taking it for granted, however, that our reader is the possessor of a refined mind, and of an elevated taste, we beg to assure him that if he desires rich fields for aesthetic realisation, combined with ample scope for physical relaxation and enjoyment, he will find them to his heart's content by making a tour through New Zealand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.