View of Mount Egmont.
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Miscellanies.
ON the other side is a view of Mount Egmont, a remarkable mountain in the district of Taranake, New Zealand. The Engraving is copied from a Plate in Dr. Dieffenbach's Travels in that country. Mount Egmont has every appearance of having been, in former ages, a volcano, or burning mountain; but none of the Natives appear ever to have heard of an eruption. Its upper part is always covered with snow. The Pa, or fortified village, seen to the left of the Picture, on a steep rock overhanging the sea, will give an idea of the kind of places chosen by the Natives for their defence in times of war.
One of the Missionaries writes, "If ever New Zealand needed the interest and sympathy of the Church of Christ it is at the present time. If ever there were a season of sifting and anxious trial, that season prevails now. If ever prayers and supplications for the outpouring of God's Holy Spirit were wanted, those prayers and supplications are wanted now, that the pending evils may be overruled for good, and light spring forth from this gloomy darkness."
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