THE HOT LAKES DISTRICT, NEW ZEALAND. 



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The Secretary. — Have some of those terraces been raised out of 

 the sea 1 



Mr. Xarliax. — Xo ; from the sea the formation of the mountain 

 is very abrupt — something like, perhaps, 45 degrees. 



The Secretary. — I think I ought to join, with Professor Logan 

 Lobley and yourself, sir, in expressing our obligation to Miss Boord 

 for this exceedingly interesting and graphic paper which she has 

 read before us. She has given us an account of the phenomena she 

 witnessed in this wonderful island, in a clear, lucid and agreeable 

 manner, and I could see from the manner in which the audience were 

 following her in the paper that they were all very much interested 

 in her observations. AVe, in this happy island of ours, are not so 

 favoured as some other countries in res^ard to recent volcanic 

 phenomena, though we have grand representatives of extinct 

 Tolcanic action. We have no eruptions from craters, no geysers 

 ^nd very seldom any earthquakes that we are conscious of ; so that 

 we are dependent on travellers to Iceland, Yellowstone Park, the 

 Lipari Islands, the West Indies and other regions of the globe for 

 accounts of these grand operations of nature ; the results of heat and 

 moisture acting with tremendous force through the agency of steam, 

 producing wonderful effects at the time and leaving their marks for 

 many a day afterwards. We are, therefore, indebted to those who 

 bring us information and produce before us pictures and photographs 

 of the phenomena they have seen like those exhibited here to-day, and 

 which, after all, though beautifully representative, yet fall very far 

 short indeed of the phenomena themselves as seen in nature. For 

 these reasons I think we are very much indebted to Miss Boord for 

 lier paper. 



The Chairman having put the vote of thanks to the Meeting, 

 which was carried unanimously. Miss BoORD, through the Chairman, 

 thanked the Meeting for the manner in which her paper had been 

 received, and the proceedings terminated. 



