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bones of fishes and birds, as well as human remains, but not a trace of 
a Moa bone. Ona sand-bank not 20 yards from the ovens, we found the 
greater part of a human skeleton, which had, I think, been buried, and 
probably belonged to a woman, one of some travelling or fishing party. 
The under jaw accompanies this paper. These ovens were close to the 
stream first-mentioned, and about five miles from the end of Cape Camp- 
bell. Much nearer to it, only about a quarter of a mile from the light- 
house, I found another tarsus much smaller than the first. It was found 
partly embedded in a steep clay hill at the spot marked 2 on the map, but 
no other bones could be found near it. All the remains mentioned above 
were found to the east and south of Cape Campbell ; to the west of it lies 
Clifford Bay, extending from the Cape to the White Bluff, which divides it 
from Cloudy Bay. All along the shores of Clifford Bay, as far as the 
western extremity of the sand-bar, which separates it from Lake Grass- 
mere, are to be found old ovens and the signs of Maori occupation. Two 
places have also been pointed out to me where great battles are said to have 
been fought between the natives. All the stone implements which accom- 
pany this paper were picked up at various times at the places marked on 
the map by crosses. At the place marked 3, is a piece of flat land, lyimg 
between the hills and the bay, ending in a reef of large rocks covered with 
mussels, and here, as might be expected, are the remains of a considerable 
Maori settlement. The natives inhabiting this settlement were certainly 
not Moa-hunters, for, on opening a great number of the old ovens, ash heaps, 
ete., we found chiefly shells, with fish, bird, and seal bones, but no Moa 
bones ; and I am of opinion that these ovens, ete., are of too recent a date 
for any to be found in them. Maoris were, I believe, living about the 
mussel rocks the last 50 years. Proceeding along Clifford Bay in a south- 
west direction, we come to its deepest indentation, where the shore is noW 
formed by a sand-bar, on one side of which is the sea, and on the other the 
lake, Parera-te-hau, or Grassmere, a shallow brackish lagoon, occupying 
about 4000 acres, and the resort of swans, Paradise ducks, stilt plovers, 
and other aquatic birds; and here again we come upon the remains of the 
Moa, which must have frequented the lake in numbers, bones haying 
been found all round it, but chiefly at the places marked 4, 5, and 6 on the 
map. ‘There are also a number of old ovens on the sand-bar, full of fish, 
bird, and seal bones. Lake Grassmere must at one time have formed part 
of Clifford Bay, for at its western side I came upon the remains of an 
ancient sea beach, samples of which I send herewith. More recently, its 
area seems to have been occupied by a forest, the trees growing below the 
present level of the sea. Im September, 1874, after a very wet winter, the 
lake broke through the sand-bar to the sea, leaving a large portion of its 
