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endwise very steeply (about 175 ft. per mile) towards the depressed 

 area.* On the lower benches there is a considerable quantity of 

 gravel, and at Baring Head some stacks survive on the platform 

 which forms the Head. fg 



Access. The platforms at Tongue Point may be reached by walk- 

 ing westward along the foreshore from Island Bay tram-terminus ; 

 or, more easily, by road and bridle-track motor-car to end of South 

 Makara Road (in the valley of the Karori Stream), thence on foot 

 three miles to McMenamen's homestead at Tongue Point. 



To visit the platforms east of Port Nicholson it is necessary to 

 proceed by motor-car by way of Petone or Lower Hutt and the 

 Wainui-o-mata Valley (note aggradation due to tilting see p. 6), 



FIG. 8. Uplifted marine platforms between Baring Head and Cape Tura- 



kirae, Wellington. 



to the last farm-buildings before the mouth of the Wainui is reached 

 (twenty-four miles from Wellington). Here the Wainui-o-mata is 

 crossed on a plank bridge, and a steep slope undercut by a meander 

 of the stream, since cut off, must be climbed. There is an indistinct 

 track, which leads over a low gap, to Fitzroy Bay. Proceed along 

 the lowest, or Baring Head, platform to Baring Head, where the tilt 

 of this platform becomes obvious and an excellent view of the higher 

 benches is obtained. 



C. A. COTTON. 



* For a description of these see C. A. Cotton, " The Warped Land-surface 

 . ," Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 53, pp. 131-43 (refer to pp. 136-38), 1921. 



