xiv ILLUSTRATIONS. 



over the plate until the picture is brought out clearly in 

 all its dark and light shadings. A specially prepared 

 paper is now applied to the inked plate, passed through 

 the press, and then carefully raised from the film, a 

 perfectly printed picture. It is afterwards polished, if 

 desired, as in the samples in this book, with talc and 

 cotton batting. 



Any color may be used in the printing. From three to 

 five hundred copies can be taken from one film, and 

 after that another film can be easily prepared from the 

 same negative. An original and perfect negative will 

 of course make the finest picture. The excellent repro- 

 ductions here presented were made however, in all but 

 two instances, the portrait and the diatom plate, from 

 copies of the originals, and the most of them from neg- 

 atives taken of the paper photographs brought from 

 New Zealand. They are the productions of The Lewis 

 Company, 15 Cornhill, Boston. 



PLATE I. FKOXTISPIECE. 

 PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR. 



PLATE II. OPPOSITE PAGE 8. 

 NEW ZEALAND "BUSH" SCENERY. 



It is supposed that the New Zealand forest, or " bush " as it 

 is there called, with its rank undergrowth of ferns and 

 reed grasses, and its overhanging masses of parasitic 

 growths, orchids, creepers, and climbing ferns, represents 

 both in species and in luxuriance the vegetation which 

 formed the coal beds. Pages 298 and 303 



PLATE III. OPPOSITE PAGE 32. 

 MITRE PEAK, MILFORD SOUND, NEW ZEALAND. 



This sound is one of many remarkable inlets from the 

 sea on the south-west coast of New Zealand, like the 

 fiords of Norway. This one is nine miles in length 

 and is walled in by snow-capped peaks which rise almost 

 straight up from the water to heights of from five to 

 seven thousand feet. On the left of the view is Mitre 

 Peak, 5,600 feet high, so called from its resemblance in 

 certain views to the double-peaked Cardinal's mitre. 



