The Pigeon 



)HE geology of tlie run is too 

 fascinating a subject upon 

 whicli to embark in detail. 

 Suffice it to repeat what has 

 been said before, tliat there 

 are several hundred miles of precipice 

 and crag on Tutira. The western boundary 

 running north and south is for miles a 

 rampart of sandstone capped with limestone. 

 The native name of the block, Heru-o-Turea, 

 the comb of Turea, most aptly describes 

 the look of the country side, sliced as it is 

 into sections by immense standstone ravines, 

 each forming a separate "tooth" of this 

 titanic comb. 



The boundary rivers of the run are 

 gorges from watershed to within two or 

 three hundred feet of sea level, and many 

 of the paddocks are almost completely 

 bounded by cliffs and gorges. In the 



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