DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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and Birch Hill, seven miles farther still, he realizes more adequately the vastness of the 

 Glacier. It lies to the right, while part of Mount Sefton is visible to the left. Straight 

 across the Tasman River the Liebig Range, with Mount Stanhope, forms an impenetrable 

 wall, and nearer the Lake the Play-ground and Howard Peaks dominate that portion of 



MOUNT COOK AND THE HOOKER GLACIER. 



the view. From the Downs the road descends to 



some flats, and leads across a number of creeks 



to Birch Hill Station, where we learn that we are 



only six miles from the Hermitage. The entire Tasman Glacier with its 



moraine accumulations is now in open view, the streams that unite to 



form the Tasman River issuing from its terminal face, and above them 



