ANTHONY TROLLOPE ON THE HOT LAKES.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 60, 29 March 1873, Page 3

ANTHONY TROLLOPE ON THE HOT LAKES.

Akthokt Teollopb lias written a letter to the 1-ondon Batty Telegraph, dated Auckland, October,lß72, entitled "New Zealand as it is," from which we take the following .—"The natural baths and warm rivers of New Zealand belong almost exclusively to the province of Auckland. I travelled through the whole district, bathed in numerous natural warm batha, and just escaped be,ng boiled alive in numberless hot springs. —eforo many yeara have passed roads will be made, coaches and boats will run, hotels will have been built, tmdjikesf! wonderful lakes will be the thronged resort of tourists. Rotoinabana is certainly a place of exquisite charms. Ail round the shores are hot j«t» of scalding wafer, scalding steam —and, worse still—scalding rnud. As you walk among them and hear etories of Maori girls and Maori old men who have been boiled alive it is impossible to avoid the reflection that such a fate 1* open to yourself. lam told that on oecan.oiis some ot these geysers riee to great altitudes, ana I heard ot one estimated at 300 feet when m fu.i force. The jota were not doing their best when I visited them ; 1 doubt whether 1 *a w any wat«r thrown 30 test, high,"