ILLUSTRATIONS. xix 



PLATE XIV. OPPOSITE PAGE 224. 

 WHITE TERRACES WITH FOUNTAIN NOT FLOWING. 



The natives say that when the wind blows strong in a certain 

 direction, the waters recede from the fountain of the 

 White Terraces, and they can look down into it as into 

 a crater. This statement would be almost incredible 

 without the evidence of this photograph. Page 309 



PLATE XV. OPPOSITE PAGE 240. 



VIEW AT THE HEAD OF LAKE WAKATIPU, 

 NEW ZEALAND. 



Lake Wakatipu (Wah-kah-teep\ 60 miles long, 1,000 feet 

 above the sea, and said to be 1,400 feet deep, lying in 

 the heart of the Southern Alps at the farthest end of 

 New Zealand, is the wildest and grandest scenery lake 

 perhaps in the world. From the end where the Inver- 

 cargill railway reaches it, to the head where a single 

 Irish family on one side and a single Scotch family on 

 the other make the rival " towns " of Kinlock and 

 Glenarchy, increasingly high and rugged snow covered 

 peaks and ridges rise abruptly from the shores to heights 

 of six to nine thousand feet. The terraces which are 

 seen in this view, as sharply cut as if made by human 

 hands, and which are over 400 feet high, are found at 

 the same height and with the same shelves on all sides 

 of the lake, showing the different elevations at which 

 the water has stood in former times. Page 316 



PLATE XVI. OPPOSITE PAGE 256. 



EUCALYPTUS FOREST OF AUSTRALIA, WITH 

 TREE FERNS. 



In these forests which cover so large a part of Australia, 

 the enormous white trunks of the different. "gum trees" 

 (I have jneasured them over 17 feet in diameter) tower 

 up 200 or 300 feet without branches, while underneath 

 is an impenetrable growth of ferns and bushes. In the 

 edges and more open spaces flourish the tall tree ferns, 

 30 to 40 feet high. Page 297 



