Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country, Vol. I
Author: first_name: Ernst
last_name: Dieffenbach
Language: English
Year: 1843

“Let the reader imagine a deep lake of a blue colour, surrounded by verdant hills; in the lake several islets, some showing the bare rock, others covered with shrubs, while on all of them steam issued from a hundred openings between the green foliage without impairing its freshness: on the opposite side a flight of broad steps of the colour of white marble with a rosy tint, and a cascade of boiling water falling over them into the lake!”

Such is Ernest Dieffenbach’s description of his first gla