Excerpt from By Forest Ways in New Zealand The ship which brought me to New Zealand called first at Wellington, the capital City, with a population, as I afterwards heard, of ninety thousand. Ships steam up a narrow, rocky Channel into the harbour, which Widens out into an area of fifty square miles, with deep water right up to the town, and Wharves adjoining the Chief streets. All round the harbour are hills, most of them now cleared of trees and grass-grown; but in 1840, when Wellington was founded as a Colony under the British Crown, it was a tiny settlement of huts ringed about by miles of untouched forests; and you realize With never-failing wonder how great a change has been wrought in a very Short space of time. The town is built along the water front and up the hills behind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.