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TO
THE HONOURABLE ROBERT STOUT,
PREMIER OF NEW ZEALAND,
This Volume
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY
THE AUTHOR.
“From scenes like these old Scotia’s grandeur springs,
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad:
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
‘An honest man’s the noblest work of God.’”
Burns.
