Identifier: oceanaore00frou (find matches)
Title: Oceana : or, England and her colonies
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894
Subjects: Great Britain--Colonies
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
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l Sir George Greys eye was caught byits capabilities. Like most men of fine intellect, he had ataste for solitude, or at least for the possibility of solitudewhen he wished for it. He purchased the island from the.Government, and built a handsome house there. Before hisdoor he constructed a causeway or quay running into the sea,where coasting steamers can lie alongside. He planted everytree that he knew of in any part of the world which had achance of growing there. He laid out a garden, where amongorange-groves and figs and pears, the choicest hothouseflowers blossom carelessly, having been once introduced.Into the interior of his little kingdom he brought elk, reddeer, fallow deer, roe, wild hog, and wallaby. He haswild turkeys there and wild peacocks—anything and every-thing. He engaged men whom he knew and could de-pend on to manage his farms and woods, his sheep andcattle, his own grounds and gardens. He settled them,with their families, in substantial houses; and in democratic
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SIR GEORGE GREY 253 New Zealand he established a patriarchal monarchy, held to-gether by the singular personal attachment which he is ableto command. Having given away his first precious bookcollection, he gathered a second, perhaps even more curiousthan the first. He has specimens of the earliest printedvolumes, English or German, volumes of old engravings,original MSS., some oriental, some belonging to our ownCommonwealth period of the highest historical value, &c.There he lives amidst his intellectual treasures, in the midstof dependants who look on him more as a father than amaster; his house always open to men of science, to thesuperior colonists, to strangers who have a better purposethan curiosity in seeking his acquaintance. A weekly postbrings his letters and the periodic literature of Europe.When the Legislature is in session, he leaves his islandfor Wellington and his duties as a member of the Council.If he has bitter enemies as well as warm friends, it is a signthat he

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