AN INTERESTING FIND.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1662, 31 January 1913, Page 5

AN INTERESTING FIND.

£: : PLaVOP PORT-; NICHOLSON. \^'''K-browsing, round the London- book- ■ .Whops .recently.'Mr.J'Alah Muir, proprietor, : of'the "Poverty Bay,: Herald (now in came across in. excellently, lithographed topographical bird's-eye view ■} bf Port -Nicholson: (Wellington Harbour) 'prior : ;to 'any settlement ■ having' "taken place.;: Tho plan was executed by /T. Al'loni'as part of Colonel Wakefield's surivey of tho port, was printed,,by,Hullman- ■'..'. tie! and Walter, of London, and published '|' i W Trelawney Saunders, also of London.. '. v The plan- ,'is astonishingly accurate ' : for work of such'a remoto date, and tho view of'the. port is quite original; It .is ns though OnS were looking -, down on the ;,-•. port i from : a "considerable; altitude well ' off'the, entrance. "The .foreground shows ■■:>. 'the.|flhtfance, and the coast-line, as far .round as Ohiro ;Bay 'on the, one hand, end a mile'or two of coast-linei south-east Bf Penoarrow; Head.. The hills round the ' harbour.and on Watt's' Peninsula (Mira- . biar) are depicted topographically, and in' '.'excellent perspective is the Hutt' Valley; threaded by the Hutt River and Waiwetn Stream.'; A largo'lake (Burnham Water) "; Is;shown, where Miramar flat now lies,' and the Miramar isthmus is marked "flat' I land.'".,': The "plan, is descriptive. Tor instance, .the"Hutt Valley, is 'labelled .I'rich .alluvial' soil," and: tl>e words .i '-.', grove of pines"indicate the:,white and ■:«d pine bush which .grow to luxuriantly ;■ there before - the ring, of the '■ pakeha's .-'. bright nxe .was heard; in .the land; In, .some instance the nomenclature of cer- '■'■ win. points has undergone a change; iVhat is generally known- as Pipit'ea . Poiflt-the northern extremity of Waterloo Quay-is marked Bellsizo Point; Wor- ' f?r Bay is called Young's Bay; Day's Bay . i i?,set down as Hawtrey Bay; atid-Muri-tai;.as Robinson's Bay. There is also a .. Bails Bay on the eastern side of the harbour and Lowr.v Bay is'minted "Law-..V-'JT:: in the plan. JStceple Rock, Chaffer's Passage, Palmer Head.(on tho north-west ! - Bide of the entrando),'and Lvall Bay pre-' eorvo .their identity. Tho plan has been .presented bv Mr.' Alnji Muir to his broV W.M. Mnlr.'of Majoribanks . ,btreot. who has .an interesting collection ■;- ; ;'''<>W- i ™i«ps.'. pliins, and' books on old . '■■ Wellington. . .' ■'-■' :,