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about 200 feet above the plains, well deserves its name, as the 

 panorama around the visitor standing on its summit is really beautiful, 

 and of the most varied description. After visiting Burnt Hill, which 

 rises about 300 feet above the plains, and which is only a portion of a 

 coulee of basaltic rock flowing from several fissures, and reaching 

 without doubt from near the sources of the Hororata to the southern 

 foot of Mount Thomas, I returned to Christchurch on May the 2nd. 



Collecting Saurian Remains in the Middle Waipara, June, 1867. 



About the middle of June another visit was paid to the "Waipara 

 in order to collect saurian remains in Booby's creek. For this 

 purpose I took a stonemason with me, but the continuance of very rainy 

 weather caused the rivers to become so high, that very little 

 could be done, even the smaller creeks being generally inaccessible. 

 I was compelled, after several attempts, to desist from the proposed 

 work. A few interesting specimens were however secured. 



a ylsit to grlenmark, and heavy floods, end of july and 



Beginning of August, 1867. 



Wishing to make some more excavations in Grlenmark, I proceeded 

 there, this time taking with me the late F. R. Fuller, taxidermist 

 to the Museum. On arriving there on the afternoon of July 30th 

 the sky looked very angry. During the night it began to rain very 

 heavily, changing next morning to snow, which continued for two days, 

 after which, a regular downpour of rain lasted for another day. 

 The small creeks round the house rose ten to twelve feet above their 

 usual level, and were now raging impassable torrents, destroying 

 everything in their way. It will be still in the recollection of the 

 inhabitants of the Province that the floods caused by these snowstorms 

 and heavy rainfalls were the greatest ever experienced since the 

 colonization of the country, and no similar disaster, where a consider- 

 able portion of the lower plains north of the Waimakariri stood under 

 water, has since visited us. For several days, owing to the 

 soaked state of the ground, we were unable to do anything 

 in the turbary deposits, but afterwards, when we could begin 

 work, we obtained a fine collection of bones of every hitherto 

 known species. A similar interesting collection was made from 

 the banks of the Grlenmark creek, where in the mean time we 



