 | Charles Terry - Great Britain - 1842 - 416 pages
...impression and opinion, that the necessaries, and even more, as regards food, would be abundant and cheap. But New Zealand has neither a tropical climate, nor...the food of man, and easily obtained by the toils or chace. The Islands of New Zealand are uncultivated wastes, — either of mountains covered with dense... | |
 | Sidney Smith - Australia - 1849 - 140 pages
...impression and opinion, that the necessaries, and even more, as regards food, would be abundant and cheap. But New Zealand has neither a tropical climate, nor...chase. The islands of New Zealand are uncultivated wastes—eitner of mountains covered with dense forests—of plains and lowlands covered with impenetrable... | |
 | Sid Smith - Canada - 1850 - 304 pages
...impression and opinion, that the necessaries, and even more, as regards food, would be abundant and cheap. But New Zealand has neither a tropical climate, nor...the food of man, and easily obtained by the toils 01 chase. The islands of New Zealand are uncultivated wastes — either of mountains covered with dense... | |
 | 324 pages
...impression and opinion, that the necessaries, and even more, as regards food, would be abundant and cheap. But New Zealand has neither a tropical climate, nor...vegetables and fruits, indigenous to such regions, grow and nourish spontaneously and abundantly , nor is it a land inhabited by native animals, adapted for the... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Great Britain - 1851 - 706 pages
...impression and opinion, that the necessaries, and even more, as regards food, would be abundant and cheap. But New Zealand has neither a tropical climate, nor...New Zealand are uncultivated wastes, — either of semblait lui-m$me frappe d'impuissance. Plus d'oiseaux, point d'insectes pas meme de reptiles de la... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Ontario - 1851 - 596 pages
...impression and opinion, that the necessaries, and even more, as regards food, would be abundant and cheap. But New Zealand has neither a tropical climate, nor...animals adapted for the food of man, and easily obtained hy the toils or .chase. The islands of New Zealand are uncultivated wastes, — either of mountains... | |
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The exaggerated statements circulated in England of the Colony, and its productions, soil, and climate, have led generally to the very erroneous impression and opinion, that the necessaries, and even more, as regards food, would be abundant and cheap.... 