220 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chatp. VUI. 
the north of the Tarania range. And the idea, which 
had been at one time so prevalent, that New Zealand 
was a very mountainous and rugged country, began to 
be dispelled. Everybody now acknowledged that the 
comparatively level and easily accessible country far 
surpassed the diificult and impracticable part in 
extent. 
