And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Was called Mt Egmont until the indigenous tribes got wind of the money to be made by extortion. I grew up in its shadow and climbed it once. It's 8,263 feet and you drive to about 2,900 feet. It's unstable terrain and tough but with a cool view from the top. The photo is taken from an attached series of hills forming a range that were once, like the mountain, active volcanoes. They remain alive but sleeping with the last eruption likely to have been only a few hundred years ago. It's a nice part of the world.
Was called Mt Egmont until the indigenous tribes got wind of the money to be made by extortion. I grew up in its shadow and climbed it once. It's 8,263 feet and you drive to about 2,900 feet. It's unstable terrain and tough but with a cool view from the top. The photo is taken from an attached series of hills forming a range that were once, like the mountain, active volcanoes. They remain alive but sleeping with the last eruption likely to have been only a few hundred years ago.
ReplyDeleteIt's a nice part of the world.
You gotta admit, Mount Taranaki sounds catchier than Mount Egmont.
DeleteBeautiful country, that Aotearoa. Oops, I mean New Zealand.
A flyfishing paradise too
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