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remotest side-branches. At neap-tide, the harbour is almost en- 
tirely drained of water; broad surfaces of mud are laid bare, and 
only narrow channels continue to retain some water. The Maori 
population in the neighbourhood is estimated at 400 inhabitants; 
the number of Europeans, on the other hand, who have settled in 
this country, was stated to me as amounting to 122, among them 
20 farmer-families. About a mile inside of the Heads, on the 
Southside, a township was founded by the name of Raglan. 
The place, however, numbered as yet only six or eight houses, 
among which, of course, a tavern and a mercantile store. Not 
far from Raglan, likewise on the Southside, there is a Mission 
station , where we were received with a very friendly welcome by 
the Rev. Mr. Wallis. Opposite, on the Northside , there is a Maori 
village Idorea and an old Pah. 
The banks of the Waitetuna in the vicinity of Captain John- 
ston’s house consist of light-gray clay -marl of tertiary age, con- 
taining fossils. I succeeded here, in company with my friend 
Dr. Haast, in gathering species of TurUella, Isocardium, Ncitica, and 
Turbinolia, together with some beautiful Foraminiferoe, in which 
the clay-beds are greatly abounding. On the Southside of the 
harbour basaltic hills arise , while Raglan is situated upon soft, 
ferruginous sand-stone, formed of quicksand. Opposite to Raglan, 
on the Northside of the harbour a picturesque formation of tabular 
limestones appears, which, cor- 
roded by the sea, present the 
most singular forms, such as 
towers of 60 to 70 feet high, 
walls and the like. These lime- 
stones belong to the same ter- 
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tiary formation as the lime- 
/ 
stones near Drury, and are full 
of fossils, which, however, are 
difficult to knock out. On pass- 
ing, from the North-head along 
Cristellaria Haasti Stache 
the West Coast in a northern 
from the banks of the ^ 
Hoc hs tetter, New Zealand. 
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