. A year in the New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, and New Caledonia. Dayspring (Brigantine); Missions; Botany; Botany. Letter XVI1. You have all the shades arid tints requisite for a lovely picture—distant range, light blue ; Mont D'Or, red, brown, and yellow; the foreground green, brown, &c, and the sea and sky- deep blue. ,. Mont D'Or, New Caledonia. The roads which run out from Noumea are capital and nu- merous, all being the work of the convicts. Going out in one direction we visited the racecourse one day, while on another occasion we went by another road, eight or ten miles out to an au
. A year in the New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, and New Caledonia. Dayspring (Brigantine); Missions; Botany; Botany. Letter XVI1. You have all the shades arid tints requisite for a lovely picture—distant range, light blue ; Mont D'Or, red, brown, and yellow; the foreground green, brown, &c, and the sea and sky- deep blue. ,. Mont D'Or, New Caledonia. The roads which run out from Noumea are capital and nu- merous, all being the work of the convicts. Going out in one direction we visited the racecourse one day, while on another occasion we went by another road, eight or ten miles out to an auberge, and there, sitting under a shady tree, tried the French drink absinthe. Sickly stuff I thought it, and resolved to taste it no more. Every here and there along these roads we passed bands of convicts at work, well guarded by armed sentries—all of whom, the prisoners as well as soldiers, saluted us with truly French politeness. The country has in many places a most striking resemblance to some parts of Victoria, a tree which grows plentifully in the bush, being very like the stringy-bark of that colony. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Campbell, F. A; Campbell, Alexander James; Macdonald, Donald; Mueller, Ferdinand von, 1825-1896. Geelong, G. Mercer; [etc. , etc.
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