THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
THE AMAZING GALLERY GORGE. Perhaps the spectacle of the wildest grandeur to be seen anywhere in this district is the amazing Gallery Gorge ilirough which the Gallery ltiver, rising from the glaciers on Mount Elie ue Beaiini/0:.., drni.ua. into the Uailio River close to Uie hot spring. .Standing on the swing bridge about ■).> feet above the bed of the roaring waters, and looking up into the gorge, one is confronted with a truly wondrous scene. On both -sides of this narrow defile, less than 100 feet wide, the mountain walls, clothed in tho richest vegetation, rise sheer above one for many hundreds of feet and about two hundred feet ahead, shooting out through, a circular tunnel underneath. Jt really, has to he seen to. he .believed. To see it in normal times is a revelation, but to be there when the river is in full flood must be to witness a sight before "which the imagination must.stand appalled. The Callery Gorge is, in fact, a classic example of fascinating frightfulness merged into the supremely beautiful, and is one of the best features of the wholly simple walk along the well-formed .and graded track round the basin of the Waiho Gorge. —E. E. Muir.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1929, Page 4
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207THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1929, Page 4
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