The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . he inevitable flax, &c., are amongthe articles which Nelson claims to contribute to the riches of the world. But in thesoil there is also great store of metals; among tliese iron ore ranks first, and as coal andlimestone are found in close proximity, the Nelsonians not unreasonably consider thatthey, or their cliildren, have a great future before them. Lead, copper, and gold arealso claimed, but as yet these have not come much to the front in mining
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . he inevitable flax, &c., are amongthe articles which Nelson claims to contribute to the riches of the world. But in thesoil there is also great store of metals; among tliese iron ore ranks first, and as coal andlimestone are found in close proximity, the Nelsonians not unreasonably consider thatthey, or their cliildren, have a great future before them. Lead, copper, and gold arealso claimed, but as yet these have not come much to the front in mining is a pleasant town, and one at which the disappointed traveller first begins toget hopeful that at last he has not done his long voyaging for nothing. Here he doessee a few Maoris loafing about, and, after all, apparently not so unhappy as, on theoreticalgrounds, these representatives of a vanishing race ought to be. Yet Nelson is not rushingahead at a rate which need alarm any one. It is prospering after a quiet, durable fashion,as is also the province; but it is not likely for some time to attract great additions to. A MAORI CHIEF (UXTATTOOED). s ]10 THE COUXTRIES OF THE WOKLD. its i)ui>iilation. The land is good, but not particularly well farmed, and the greater portionavailable for agrieullure has been sold. AVheat-growiug does not pay, unless a farmercan o-et all bis labour done by his own family, and, as a consequence, Nelson did not—whatever it may do now—a few years ago grow enough wheat for its own conpum], writes a recent visitor, though sleepy, it seemed happy. I was there about tliebeginning of September—a winter month—and nothing could be sweeter or more pleasantthan the air. Tiie summer heats arc not great, and all English fruits; and grass andshrubs grow at Nelson with more than English profusion. Every house was neat andprettv. The site is, I think, as lovely as that of any town I ever saw. IMerely tobreathe there, and to dream and to l
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