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46, p. 44), and still farther north the Barrytown lead and Welshman's 
Terrace is about 220 ft. above tide-mark (50, p. 43). Bartrum (95, p. 259) 
has described sloping plains between Charleston and Westport that rise to 
about 250 ft. at the foot of an old sea-cliff. Near Westport there are beach 
leads between 200 ft. and 300 ft., and at Gentle Annie Point marine gravels 
occur about 200 ft. Mon the sea (49, p. 94). Still farther "pug in the 
Paturau district, there are raised beaches up to 200 ft. high (32, p. 25). 
The only reference suggesting that the land in South Westland was 
once more than 200ft. or 300ft. lower than » present is by Hacket 
(5, p. 10), who observed that the plateau between the Omoeroa and Waiho 
Rivers, two or three miles from the sea, is oo 700 ft. high. Between 
Greymouth and Westport there is abundant evidence of uplift. North of 
Point .Elizabeth, near Nine-mile Bluff, an extensive marine terrace occurs 
ata "er of over 400 ft. Gold-bearing — have been worked 
at between 500ft. and 750ft. near the: mouth of Punakaiki River 
ке), р. 48). кыю of the high- -level blacksand iid of the Charleston district 
ur 500 ft. and more above sea-level, and there is, according to Bartrum, 
A а wave-ut bench at 759 ft. stat p. 258; see also 67, p. 445). Marine 
oup = also present in the Westport district 
io > op. а), and platforms 1,000 ft. or more face the coast near Kahurangi 
Summary of Evidences of Elevation. 
The coastal terraces of New Zealand may evidently be grouped into 
several sets. Two sets, one comprising er beaches up to 120 ft. above 
to 300 
r (64, p. 269) observed many years ago, raise up t 
25 ft. above sea-level occur at innumerable points round the coast of New 
idely dis 
120 ft., and in sheltered embayments are sloping wave-built te 8 ris 
ore streams owing to t the latest elevations) most clearly ; ; but in these the 
distinetion between fluviatile and littoral deposits is difficult to make, and 
the Бая, = of — саан when the period of standstill or depression ended, 
dete ne portions of the coast, where, however, 
ovi ge the a bik of the land by the waves, the complete bench 
is nowhere preserved, iod old strand-line is most definitely marked. The 
best example of this terrace known to the writer is at whence 
э extends westward to t per Waiau River. Another bench cut during the 
ft. standstill in hard early Tertiary rocks, extends for at least seven 
eds along the coast north of the Molyneux River. In the North Island 
id narrow strip of a platform cut in beds of Middle Tertiary age extends 
uth from Awakino River for twenty-five miles to Urenui, where it merges 
a the Taranaki Plain. In these localities the old strand-line of what may 
be termed the Awakino c cle i is about 120 ft. above sea-level. The poised) 
occurrence at about this t of remnants of wave-formed terraces round 
the coast of New Zealand, as described in preceding pages, suggests that 
the Islands were uniformly uplifted to this height. 
