OF NEW ZEALAND. 
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testimony to the excellency of all Cook's discove- 
ries. I compared with care," says M. Crozet, 
the chart which I had drawn of the portion 
which we ran along of the coast of New Zealand, 
which was taken by Captain Cook and his officers. 
I found it to possess an exactness and minuteness 
which astonished me beyond all expression. I 
doubt whether our own coasts of France have 
been delineated with more precision." 
The descriptions given, by our English voyager, 
of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of 
New Zealand, are remarkably correct, considering 
the shortness of his stay there, and the disadvan- 
tages of a first visit among a strange people — of 
unknown language — barbarous in their habits — 
and the greater portion of whom had never before 
beheld the face of any but their own tribes and 
people. Many subsequent visitors, possessing su- 
perior advantages, though more diffuse in their 
details, are by no means more correct. 
No country in the world, perhaps, can boast 
of greater natural beauties than the large and 
magnificent islands of the Southern Hemisphere ; 
among which. New Zealand holds no mean or 
secondary place. Other regions may possess 
greater variety of climate, or may produce a 
greater collection of luscious tropical fruits ; but 
none can exceed New Zealand in the general 
aspect of the country — for rich and varied scenery 
— and for every thing which naturally strikes 
the eye as beautiful or sublime. In the southern 
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