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the limestone sea-floors split themselves have perceptibly shifted their 

 sites. In 1905 a landslip of some quarter of a mile in length started from 

 the lower part of the Racecourse flat, overwhelmed the road near the 

 Waikoau crossing, swept it out of existence, smashed like matches trees 

 of three and four feet in circumference, finally depositing two great 

 boulders in the Waikoau river. There to this day they stand, monu- 

 mentally white in their unlichened youth. 



Valley of the Maungahinahina. 



In 1911 another vast rock moved, not after rain, but after a long 

 spell of particularly dry weather, and on a day so calm as to forbid 

 suspicion of earth tremors. This enormous fragment of limestone 

 cliff broke away from the highest sea-floor of the Racecourse paddock. 

 The sound of the mass moving, the clouds of dust raised, were per- 

 ceptible half a mile off. Viewed more nearly, it had ploughed a deep 

 chasm into the earthy slope below, parting it as a battleship breasts 



