Not Far from The Key (which, as [unclear: m] inferred from its name, is the entrance [unclear: to] Manapouri and Te Anau districts, a [unclear: a] piece of barren looking ground is [unclear: p] through, destitute of all grass or others [unclear: p] vegetation, but dotted with stunted [unclear: b] (Dacrydium bidwelli) and a [unclear: v] veronica. This sterile waste [unclear: imm] arrests attention, and it well may,'for [unclear: si] tion to its peculiar appearance it it [unclear: is] of .the piece of country where in 1831 [unclear: it] the lot of Robert Scott, a rabbiter [unclear: empl] Linwood station, to have laid at his [unclear: fee] dog the late specimen of the takable [unclear: (N] mantelli) which has been foundalive [unclear: is] Zealand.