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EXPLANATION OF THE MAP.
its vicinity. The town lies at the foot of the mountain, being built upon an alluvial delta formed by the confluence of two streams, named the Matai and the Brook Street Creek, extending also up their valleys and along the hill slopes that face the harbour. An excellent road leads from Nelson to the south through the luxuriant fields and meadows which bedeck the agricultural districts of the Waimea and Waiiti plains. On these fruitful alluvial flats are to be seen farm after farm, while many villages are rapidly springing into existence. Since 1861, Nelson has possessed a railway, being the first constructed in New Zealand. It is the work of the Dun Mountain Company, for the purpose of developing the chrome mines, and leads from the harbour through the town and up the Brook Street valley.
The existence of the harbour of Nelson is due to a most singular boulder bank which extends along the coast for eight miles, forming a natural dam, behind which there extends a narrow and shallow arm of the sea, which deepens towards the south, where it communicates with Blind Bay, and forms a small but safe harbour.
CREIGHTON AND SCALES, PRINTERS, O'CONNELL-STREET, AUCKLAND.
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