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into the old tuff-crater and spreading round the base of the smaller 
crater-cones. 
N 
A. New cinder and scoria-cone. 
a. Crater, about 200 feet deep. 
b. Crater, about 180 feet deep. 
c. Third crater. 
d. Highest point of the crater. 
B. Purchas Hill, old cinder and scoria- 
cones. 
e. and f. Craters. 
C . Tuff-cone. 
g. Tuff-crater. 
D. Lava-streams. 
E. to F. Road from Pan mure to St. 
John's College. 
(The terraces on the slopes of A and 
B date frome the fortifications of the 
natives.) 
A. 
B . 
Mount Wellington, or Maunga Rei, 
c. 
near Auckland. 
Most abounding in lava , and in its last eruptions probably 
also the newest of all the Auckland volcanoes is the Rangitoto 
Mountain, 920 feet high, rising on the Eastside of the entrance 
to the Waitemata Harbour. This is at the same time the only 
point, where the lava-streams have built up a regular lava-cone, 
rising at an angle of 4 to 5 degrees, and bearing at its top two 
920 ' 
Rangitoto near Auckland. 
steep cones of scoriae and cinders, of which the upper one with 
a funnel-shaped crater appears set in the crater of the lower. Hence 
the characteristic profile of this mountain. 
