re

"Okoaro. Cottage of J. Stephenson Smith Esq New Plymouth.

(Mount Egmont 8270 feet high, distant 15 miles.)

NEW ZEALAND,

OR

ZEALANDIA,

THE BRITAIN OF THE SOUTH.

With Two Maps and Seven Coloured Views.

BY

CHARLES HURSTHOUSE,

A NEW ZEALAND COLONIST, AND FORMER VISITOR IN THE
UNITED STATES, THE CANADAS, THE CAPE COLONY,
AND AUSTRALIA.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

EDWARD STANFORD, 6, CHARING CROSS.

1857.

226.2.89.

"For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass."-DEUT. viii. 7-9.

BOD

LONDON PRINTED BY WOODFALL AND KINDER,

ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET.

INSCRIBED TO

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, BART.,

IN ADMIRATION OF

HIS BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF COLONISATION PRESENTED IN

"THE CAXTONS."