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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 66

South-eastern District

South-eastern District.

In the South Island the chief agricultural areas are in the vicinity of the sea-coast, but there are also small areas in the interior, in the page 19 vicinity of the lake districts, where agriculture can be profitably followed. The alluvial soils of the lower part of the Canterbury Plains, and of Nelson, Otago, and Southland, are the most remarkable for their fertility; but scarcely less important are the low rolling downs formed by the calcareous rocks of the Tertiary formation, which skirt the higher mountain masses, and frequently have their quality improved by the disintegration of interspersed basaltic rocks.