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Ch. XXVIIL] 



EAETHQUAKE IN NEW ZEALAND, 



87 



* 



being on the eastern, and the lesser on the western side of 

 the harbour. A rock called the Bailey Eock, a short distance 

 from Evans Bay, was formerly 2 feet nnder water at the 

 lowest tides, and a vessel having touched upon it, a buoy had 

 been placed over it, to mark its position. This rock projected 

 after the shock nearly 3 feet above the surface of the water 

 at low tide. The rise of the tide in the Hutt Eiver was 

 sensibly diminished by the earthquake. At the time of the 

 convulsion great waves of the sea rolled in upon the coast, 

 and for several weeks the tides were very irregular. Dead 



Wellin 



Mr. Mantell 



vessels in Cook Strait floating on the sea in surpr 



them 



fishermen. 

 Mr. We 



me 



of the 23rd, he felt another next morning of equal violence, 

 and waves of the sea rolled in along the coast for a distance 

 of 50 miles. At a place called the Flags between Cape 

 Campbell and Waipapa (see Map) , some men were loading a 

 vessel with wood, when they saw distinctly an earthquake 

 approaching them from a point called ' the White Eocks,' 

 3 miles to the northward. Its approach was rendered visible 

 by the rolling of stones from the top* of the cliffs, also by 

 landslips and clouds of dust, and by the accompanying sea 

 wave. Upon the whole it appears that the area convulsed in 

 the South Island was not so extensive as that upheaved 



Wellin 



movement was reversed, being for the most 



part a downward one. 



Wairau 



of the adjoining coast, subsided about 5 feet, so that the tide 

 flowed several miles farther up into the Wairau Eiver than it 

 formerly did, and ships taking in fresh water were obliged to 



miles 



they did before the earthquake. 



Norther 



or Southern Island at the time of these events ; but the 

 natives allege that the temperature of the Taupo hot springs 



