DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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sulphur lake of brilliant yellow lies at the base of the terrace, and the water from it, 

 after skirting- the base, tumbles over a precipice, thus forming the Primrose Falls. Near 

 the chauldron lies a foliage-lined lakelet which is" strongly impregnated with alum, and one 

 hundred yards distant from the lake is a mud volcano with a crater, twelve feet high 

 and some ninety feet in circumference, from which a bluish mud is ejected in copious 



THE GEYSERS, WHAKAREWAREWA. 



quantity. The Valley contains also a 



large steaming lake resting on a basin 



of milk-white silica ; the Rotowherowhero 



or Green Lake, with numbers of wild 



ducks sailing over its emerald waters ; 



the boiling Blue Lake; and the "Sulphur Terrace" and "Cave," the last-named enriched 



with pendulous stalactites of pure sulphur. 



There are two routes over the fifty miles of country extending from Rotorua to 

 Wairakei in the Taupo District, and each of these lies through a stretch of pleasant 

 country presenting its own attractions. One leads, by a narrow bridle-track past \Yhaka- 

 rewarewa, through the Memo Gorge, and over grassy plains, to Orakeikorako, twenty 



