382 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XI. 
feet of ascent over the first hill out of Port Nicholson 
by about a mile of circuit; and the Company com- 
pleted this line so as to admit the passage of a dray. 
The entrance into Wellington by this road is singu- 
larly beautiful. As you wind round the sides of the 
rocky spurs, beneath gigantic boughs and luxuriant 
foliage, you obtain peeps of the velvet woods of 
the valley of Kai TVara TVara and its tributaries; 
then a view of the western face of Wade's Town, with 
its cottages and bright green gardens ; and, lastly, the 
wide expanse of Port Nicholson, with its ships, its 
peaked mountains, and its glistening town. 
