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Cemetery the road dips to Caversham, about the most populous of the suburban 

 boroughs, whence it is not far to Green Island and its collieries. 



Retracing his steps to the city, a trip up the cable tram-way will take the traveller 

 to the heights of Roslyn. As he passes York Place, a reserve of green sward containing 

 a white obelisk will arrest his attention, and an inquiry will elicit the information that 

 it was the primitive cemetery of the place, and that the stone records the names of 

 the very early pioneers whose remains were there laid away to rest. Roslyn is a breezy 

 and picturesque little suburb, nicely planted with trees, adorned with charming villa 

 residences, and offering to the visitor a comprehensive panorama of the entire district. 

 Beyond it the land slopes downward to the Kaikorai Valley, the seat of several 

 important manufactories, amongst them being the branch mills of the Mosgiel Woollen 

 Company. Two miles farther on stands Flag-staff Hill, from which a splendid prospect 

 is to be obtained. Returning from the excursion, the traveller penetrates to the city 

 through the Town Belt, a broad zone of timber, which extends along the slopes of the 

 hills above Dunedin, completely engirdling it inland, and forming a well-defined belt of 

 division from the suburban boroughs upon the crest of the hills. 



It was from a point of the Belt between Roslyn and Maori Hill that a vigorous 

 writer drew the following graphic sketch of Dunedin and its environs: "Yonder rolled 

 old ocean, bluer than the sky it reflected, white-tipped here and there with feathery 

 crests of waves, petulantly foaming near the obstinate rocky islet that la}' in by the 

 beach, and was indifferent alike to storms and smiles ; and yonder stood the fair high 

 hills of the Peninsula, tinted and beautified by the warm bright sunlight. Westward 

 lay the pretty villa-built townships of Melrose, Nevada and Roslyn, rendered picturesque 

 by the frequent patches of dark green foliage; and nearer, and all around, fair Dunedin 

 city itself, with its manifold slender spires and myriad bright-looking buildings Knox 

 Church here and First Church over yonder, suggestive, in their graceful delicate archi- 

 tecture, of fairy work rather than the labour of man. Right below beamed Pelichet 

 Bay, smooth and azure, with tiny white-sailed craft skimming its surface like birds. 

 North-east was Manuka Hill, clothed in dense luxuriance of bush, and a little.- beyond, 

 lo ! God's acre, with its narrow green mounds and pale stone record. Farther east the 

 picturesque diminutive township of Opoho. Below that, pretty North-east Valley. 

 Xcarer ran the water of Leith musically over its pebbly bed much hidden by bridges 

 and tall buildings, till it won a way down by the Botanical Gardens. Quite close stood 

 forest-clad Pine Hill, and from there the eye glanced instinctively over to Flag-staff, a 

 group of mountains about whose bleak and unresponsive peaks amorous white clouds 

 continually creep, and cling, and nestle in misty adoration." 



The people of Dunedin value their extensive recreation reserves very highly, and 

 well they may, for the preservation of the Town Belt secures to the future inhabitants 

 breathing spaces within easy reach of every part of the city. The charming admixture 

 of warehouse, dwelling and garden is what specially excites the admiration of Old 

 \\orld visitors to New Zealand cities. The gardens adorned with trees richly evergreen, 

 surrounding the detached cottages that make up so large a part of these colonial centres, 

 add more to the urban beauty of which the land may boast than any pretensions to 

 architectural excellence, and give the cities a distinctive character which even to the 



