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in Hawke's Bay were both named for men named Abbott (though the latter does have streets named Waverley and Kenilworth for the novels of those titles). Ewan Morris has argued that Scott's novels were seen as particularly appropriate for colonial settlement names -- which typically displaced existing inhabitants and their historical place names -- because the novels "imagine the experience of settlement in romantic but ultimately reassuring terms", and evoke a historical legitimacy for the colonialism of

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