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takes up from the river, and is the okl incline down which coal 

 was formerly lowered from the Koranui workings, and verj' 

 rough walking it makes, as the surface-water has made a channel 

 of the incline, guttering it out and cutting it up badly. Border- 

 ing the track Gaultheria rupestris, with its beautiful white racemes, 

 and Cordyline indivisa flourish, the latter being found on parts 

 of the mountain growing in quite extensive groves, where I 

 have found it flowering, although a very shy bloomer, and oc- 

 casionally have found two flower-heads on one stem. Gahnia 

 hectori also grows alongside the track. Fagus, Panax simplex 

 and P. edgerleyi, Pseudopanax crassifolium, Weinniannia race- 

 mosa, Quintinia acutifolia, Coprosma foetidissima, and Myrsine 

 salicina form the greatest proportion of the forest at the low 

 levels. Amongst the yellow- pines, at an elevation of 2,000 ft. 

 or more, the beautiful purple-veined flowers of Gentiana montana 

 var. stolonifera are met with, and when searching for specimens 

 of this plant I came across numbers of the shells of Paryphanta 

 hochstetteri, but seldom found one perfect, as the wekas destroy 

 them. Close to the summit Celmisia dallii makes its appearance, 

 and Cassinia vauvilliersii is fairly plentiful, and where the 

 surface is bare the peculiar green humps of Eaovlia mammillaris 

 are not uncommon. Amongst the loose stones a stunted form of 

 Gentiana patula forms beautiful rosette-like clusters, but Gen- 

 tiana montana is absent. Drimys traversii, Metrosideros par- 

 kinsoni, Townsonia deflexa, and Pterostylis venosa are amongst 

 the rarest of the plants which grow on Mount Frederic, and 

 Drosera arcturi is quite common in the moss-covered bogs. 



Passing in a northerly direction along the range you reach 

 Millerton, at an elevation of nearly 2,000 ft., where the Westport 

 Coal Company has workings, and from the tovvniship a track 

 leads down to Granity Creek, where the coal-bins are situated. 

 Pterostylis banksii is abundant on the sides of the track, and 

 Olearia cunninghami here reaches its southern limit. At Granity 

 Creek there is an abrupt coast-line, the spurs of the mountains 

 coming down to within a few chains of the beach, and at Christ- 

 mas time their slopes are scarlet with the flowers of Metrosideros 

 robusta, which, together with the feathery fronds of the tree- 

 ferns and the graceful crowns of the nikau pa'ms, make a very 

 charming picture, which is completed by the sea breaking in 

 foamy lines upon the shingle-banks at their foot. From Granity 

 Creek to Mokihinui the travelling, either by way of the beach 

 or on the railway-bank, is bad, and until the road through is 

 completed one or other of these routes must be followed. 



I camped for a week at Mokihinui, and made two ascents 

 of Mount Glasgow from there. It is an exceedingly treacherous 

 mountain, as rarely a day passes without its peak being shrouded 



