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ramble terminates, our pedestrian has the watershed of 

 the Leith on his right.' 



From the summit of Flagstaff Hill the course continues 

 in a nearly due northerly direction, going down hill, to 

 cross at a height of about 1850 feet a wide saddle which 

 dips into Nichol's and Morrison's Creeks on the right, and 

 to a feeder of the Silverstream on the left, and then it 

 rises up the long slopes of Swampy Hill, and keeps along 

 the summit, among its lagoons and peat mosses, at a 

 height of some 2195 feet, for about two miles. All the 

 high ground to the left since rising up the slopes of Flag- 

 staff Hill drains into the Silverstream, a small part of the 

 wide watershed of the Taieri River. Now the traveller 

 turns nearly due east, and comes down hill once more to 

 cross the saddle between the Leith and the Waitati, then 

 up-hill to the summit of Mount Cargill, which stands 2232 

 feet above sea-level. From here, if he wished to encom- 

 pass the whole watershed of the bay, that is, of Otago 

 Harbour, his course would be across the North Road at 

 about the eighth milestone, along the high ground to 

 the summit of Mihiwaha, and out by the crown of the 

 ridge to near the North Heads. But taking the shorter 

 route, he would make a rapid descent to the North Road 

 just about the junction of the old road to Port Chalmers, 

 would keep along the crest of Signal Hill, and descend 

 to the harbour side at Black Jack's Point. I have walked 

 the whole of this course, with the exception of the portion 

 between the crest of Swampy Hill and the summit of 

 Mount Cargill, and even part of that was formerly tra- 

 versed by me on several occasions. 



This is a bare outline of the route to be traversed by 

 anyone seeking to walk round the watershed of the Dunedin 

 district, and it seems just a record of heights and howes, 

 ridges and ravines. So indeed it would chiefly be to the 

 man who did it all at one stretch, unless he had his eyes 

 very wide open, and took a long summer's day to it. Even 

 then he would not have much time to study what was 

 under his feet, though he could hardly fail to enjoy the 

 continual change of scene which would greet his eyes as he 



