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TorOGRAPHT OF NEW ZEALAND. 453the estuary, about eight miles north of the citj\ During- tlic flourishing periodof gold-mining, Dunedin, which from an obscure village had suddenly been transformedto a populous town, became the busiest commercial centre in New Zealand,and even still holds the second rank in this respect.This place is the usual startsing point for travellers visiting the region of the lakes in the New Zealand xVlps.On the southern seaboard, washed by the Antarctic Ocean, the most flourishingplace is the recently founded Invercarcjill, converging point of all the roads andFig. 196.— Poet Chalmers.Scale 1 : 350,000.Ea = tcF.GreeEI3railways radiating towards the interior. Unfortunately this seaport lies at thehead of a shallow estuaiy without any outer port, so that the largo steamers arcobliged to stop at CampheUton-n on Foveaux Strait. A railway runs from Invcrcargilltowards Kingston, a pleasant little inland town delightfully situated at thesouthern extremity of Lake ^yakatipu. Quccndoirn, at the foot of Ben Lomond onthe east side of the same lake, is a still more romantic place, originally founded