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Pohiitu, Solfatara and intermittend fountain at Whakarewarewa on the Rotorua. 
between the Hokianga River West and the Bay of Islands East, 
and fully corresponding as to their geological character with the 
Auckland volcanoes. Some few hot springs and solfataras south of 
Waimatc in the ( )toua district are the final effects of volcanic action 
in this zone. 
North Island, like its southern mate, has its best harbours at 
its two opposite extremities; Port Nicholson, the harbour of Wel- 
lington on Cook Strait in the South, and the numerous harbour 
bays on the East coast of the northern peninsula from North Cape 
to Cape Colville, among which the Bay of Islands, and the Waite- 
mata or Auckland Harbour are the most important. All the har- 
bours on the West coast of North Island have sandbars at their 
entrances, and Manukau Harbour is the only one accessible to larger 
vessels. 
On looking over the numerous colonies of great and glorious 
Albion, — that vigorous, parent tree, the branches and saplings 
of which arc taking root and thriving in all parts of the world, — 
and comparing them with New Zealand, it is at once evident, that 
of all the colonial provinces of the British crown, New Zealand 
