l4ATlOtiALMUSE UM MtcliLUHNfc 
ITS PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY 
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE 
TO THE RESULTS OF GOVERNMENT EXPEDITIONS IN TIIE PROVINCES OF 
AUCKLAND AND NELSON 
BY 
DR. FERDINAND VON HOCHSTETTER, 
Professor of Mineralogy and Geology at the Polytechnic Institution or Vienna, late member ol the Austrian 
Novara -Expedition, President or the J. R. Geographical Society of Vienna, Honorary member of the 
New Zealand Society ai Wellington, and of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury N. Z. etc. etc. 
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN ORIGINAL PUBLISHED IN 1863 
BY EDWARD SACTER, A. M„ PRINCIPAL LITTLE ROCK ACADEMY, ARKANSAS. 
WITH ADDITIONS UP TO 1866 BY THE AUTHOR. 
ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO MAPS, SEVEN PLATES IN TINTS, TEN LARGE WOODCUTS, PAGE -SIZE, 
AND NINTY- THREE WOOD ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT. 
STUTTGART, J. G. COTTA, 
1867 , 
