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visiting these gold-fields ; a projected visit to the copper-mines 

 of Great Barrier Island, and the Island of Kawau, had un- 

 fortunately to be abandoned, owing to bad weather. 



^' "With this, the period of my stay at Auckland was draw- 

 ing to a close. At the request of the members of the Me- 

 chanics' Institute, I delivered on the 24th June, shortly be- 

 fore my departure, a lecture in the hall of the society, upon 

 tlie geological capabilities of the province, in which I threw 

 together the chief results of my investigations, and illustrated 

 them by means of roughly-executed charts, plans, sketches, 

 and photographs. As I had neither time nor complete 

 material for a more extended report, it was on this lecture 

 that Government relied for an account of my various opera- 

 tions. The arrangement and careful packing of the collec- 

 tions, and the drawing the maps, delayed my departure for 

 some weeks, and after my days of labour followed others, 

 still more impossible to forget, of agreeable society and 

 festive meetings, ere I could tear myself away from the 

 inhabitants of Auckland. Thousands of mementos of New 

 Zealand were thrust into my hands. My collections com- 

 prised treasures of all sorts, such as must for ever engrave on 

 my memory the forests and mountains of New Zealand. But 

 I had yet again to thank the good people of Auckland for a 

 last souvenir of their kindly feeling and generosity to myself. 

 On the 24th July I was invited to a banquet in the name of 

 the province, at which I was presented, in terms far too 



