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New Zealand Government erecting depots for castaways in 

 several parts of the group, and boat - sheds on some of the 

 smaller islands. Thus, there are now provision - depots and 

 boat-sheds at Port Eoss, in the north of the main island ; 

 at the head of Norman Inlet ; and at Camp Cove, Carnley 

 Harbour; while on Enderby Island, Eose Island, and Ewing 

 Island are boat-sheds, boats, and a small quantity of food. 

 At the beginning of January, 1863, the " Grafton," a small 

 schooner of 75 tons (83, p. 37), engaged in sealing, was 

 wrecked, as stated in the introduction, in Carnley Harbour. 

 The officers and crew, five in all, landed safely, and lived 

 in the south of Auckland Island for more than a year and 

 a half. Finally they managed to patch up the dingey, and 

 in this frail craft Captain Musgrave, Mr. F. E. Eaynal, the 

 mate, and one of the crew reached Stewart Island. The 

 remainder of the crew, two in number, were subsequently 

 rescued by the "Flying Scud," the cost of the rescue ex- 

 pedition being met by public subscription from the people 

 of Invercargill (83, p. 98). Both Musgrave (83) and' Eay- 

 nal (87) wrote an account of their sojourn on the island, 

 and Musgrave's is of distinct scientific value, since he kept, 

 with more or less regularity, a record of the climate. The 

 botanical history of the Auckland Islands has been dealt 

 with in the introduction, so no more need be said on that 

 head. 



PHYSIOGKAPHY. 



The Auckland Islands consist of one large island, Auck- 

 land Island, and several smaller ones separated from the mam 

 island by more or less narrow channels. The entire group is 

 some twenty-seven miles in length by fifteen miles in breadth. 

 The shape and relative size of the various islands may be seen 

 from the accompanying map (PI. XXIII.), and an excellent idea 

 of the coast-line is afi'orded by the sketches of headlands and 

 harbours of the Auckland Islands made to accompany a map 

 by officers of H.M.S. "Blanche" in 1870, and reproduced 

 on a smaller scale in plates Nos. 47-49 accompanying Chap- 

 man's paper (16). Auckland Island, Adams Island, and Dis- 

 appointment Island are extremely hilly ; indeed, Adams Island 

 consists entirely of a ridge 609m. in height, its southern clil3's 

 rising abruptly out of the sea, but its northern side consisting 

 of long spurs sloping towards Carnley Harbour. The hills of 

 Auckland Island vary from 280m., the height of the Hooker 

 Hills in the north, to summits reaching to457m. or more in the 

 south. Seen from the sea, on the north and eastern sides are 

 long grassy slopes of no great steepness, very similar in ap- 

 pearance to those of Banks Peninsula, in the South Island of 

 New Zealand. In the south the hills are rather more abrupt. 

 \T?he whole of the western side of the main island consists of 



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