154 Transactions.— Miscellaneous. 
Art. XIV.—On the Rock Paintings in the Weka Pass. By A. MACKENZIE 
Cameron. Communicated by Pror. J. von Haasr, Ph.D., F.R.8. 
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4th April, 1878.) 
** 1, Cascade Terrace, Cascade Street, Paddington, 
** Sydney, 9th February, 1878. 
“To Professor Julius von Haast, President Philosophical Institute, 
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. 
** My Dear Sir,—You have already received my hurried acknowledgment of 
the receipt of your kind communication enclosing photographs of the newly- 
discovered rock paintings in New Zealand, with notes on them supplied by 
yourself and the Rev. Mr. Stack.* I now proceed to offer some suggestions 
on the figures, premising that being connected with the Society of Biblical 
Archeology of London, and having in the course of extensive travels in old 
Asiatic countries come across and studied many very ancient remains (some 
fully 8000 years old), and further, having made early alphabets and symbols 
special studies, I was entrusted lately in London for elucidation, by my 
very old friend, Dr. Thomas Allan Wise, M.D., F.R.S. Edin., with drawings 
of rock sculptures and figures which he (delighting in antiquarian researches) 
had at considerable labour and expense made in various parts of the kingdom 
of Scotland, and which may be seen on Plates in the ‘ Transactions of the 
Royal Society, Vol. XXI. Ihave thus materials at hand for comparison 
besides my own studies and experience. I may add that I am pleased to 
see Mr. Stack’s name, as I happened in England to be well-known to, and 
sometimes associated in work with, his venerable and respected father, the 
Rey. James Stack. 
“To proceed to the figures, I have to state—(1.) That such ancient 
remains are to be found in such distant parts of the globe as Ireland, Scot- 
land, India, and Borneo, and the distance from the last to New Zealand is 
not so great as the distance of Ireland or Scotland from India. (2.) In the 
western countries there are two sets of figures—one Eastern in origin and 
pre-Christian, and the other Native, and post-Christian. They are easily 
distinguishable. (3.) The pre-Christian figures were made by Phenician 
traders and Buddhist missionaries from India. Both were of the same age 
of the world's history. The first were well known for maritime enterprise, 
and if they made for one extremity of the world in Cornwall for tin, and 
down south-east to Taprobane and the Aurea Chersonesus for other mer- 
chandise and gold, why should it be improbable that they visited the ‘ Isles 
of the Sea’ expressly mentioned by Ezekiel, and reach to the end of the 
chain which begins with Sumatra and ends with New Zealand? We have 
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* Vol. As p. 44, et sês; pl. x 
