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exclude from his pedestrian journey the whole of the 

 Peninsula and the North-east Harbour. Let us follow 

 his course it is not one for a bicycle, which is a very 

 excellent machine for merely getting over the ground, but 

 does not conduce to the cultivation of the observational 

 faculties, as its rider is chiefly concerned with the in- 

 equalities and grade of the surface on which he travels. 



Starting from the cliffs above St Clair, and always keep- 

 ing to the very crest of the ridge, he follows down the 

 coast in a due westerly direction for about two miles and 

 a-half, and then turns N.-N.-E., so as to circumvent the 

 heads of all the gullies which run into Cavershain at 

 (Jorstorphiiie. This will bring him to Look-out Point, 

 from whence he will walk along the road behind the 

 Industrial School, along the back of Morningtoii and the 

 main High Street of Roslyn, nearly to the top of Driver's 

 Road in Maori Hill. Part of the way the road does not 

 quite follow the ridge, but it is very near its crest, and the 

 general direction is N.-E. Now he turns in a westerly 

 direction across the end of the Golf Links, past Balmac- 

 ewen, out to the Half-way Bush. After walking on for 

 about a mile and a-half he turns again nearly due north, 

 and follows the leading ridge till he reaches the summit of 

 Flagstaff Hill, an elevation of 2192 feet. Nearly all this 

 way, since leaving the coast, the watershed of the Kaikorai 

 Stream has been on his left hand. On the right he has 

 had only the drainage basins of the numeroiis little streams 

 which formerly meandered across the flats now occupied 

 by South Dunedin and the south end of the town, but 

 which now, confined in subterranean brick channels, con- 

 stitute large and sometimes dangerous sewers. Walking 

 along these suburban ridge-roads we have many a glorious 

 view of wide-stretching landscape, but we find it difficult 

 to realise that only half-a-century ago the first settlers 

 looked down from the flax- and tussock-covered heights 

 into ravines such as that now forming Maclaggan Street, 

 down which ran clear and abundant rivulets, and whose 

 banks were shaded with beautiful thickets of small trees 

 and shrubs. After reaching Maori Hill, and until his 



