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cious deposit surrounding it are very extensive, and piled up to a 
height of more than 20 feet, fissured and broken by numerous 
cracks; the sulphur-deposits are here still more distinct than on the 
Waikite. Parikohuru and Paratiatia are the names of the springs, 
supplying the large bathing -basins of 50 and more feet diameter, 
in which the natives, men and women promiscuously, bathe for 
hours , all cosily smoking their pipes and chatting together. The 
- range of hot springs extends from Whakarewarewa along the 
course of the Puarenga river, a distance of one and a-half miles, 
to Tearikiroa Bay on lake Rotorua. The number of smaller springs, 
of boiling mud-basins, of mud-cones and solfataras, which are scat- 
tered over this extensive area , must be counted by hundreds and 
I will make special mention of only two points more. Near the 
peninsula Motutara on the West-side of Arikiroa Bay , there is a 
basin, 16 feet long and 6 feet wide, by the natives called Orua- 
whata, full of hot water with a temperature of 185° F. and a neutral 
reaction; close by, a cold waterbasin of 55° F. , 80 feet long and 
14 feet wide, contains yellowish- white water, acidulated with sul- 
phurous acid, and of a strong acid reaction. The Arikiroa Bay also 
has yellowish- white water of an acid reaction; numerous sulphur- 
crusts, the yellow hue of which upon the white sand-beach of the 
shore is A r isible at a great distance, and a strong smell ot sul- 
phuretted hydrogen indicate from afar the solfataras on the shores 
and at the bottom of said bay. All these phenomena, however, 
cease after passing the mouth of the Puarenga Creek , and along 
the flat East-shore of the lake as far as Te Ngae there are no more 
hot springs to be met with. Two small lakes are situated on this 
side, the Rotokawa, a muddy basin in the immediate vicinity ot 
lake Rotorna ; and a little farther oft between the wooded hills on 
the Northeast-side the Rotokawau of the size of lake Tikitapu. 
To Ngae , formerly the residence of the Rev. Mr. Chapman, 
who has of late settled at Maketu, we found deserted. The grounds 
around the old Mission house are planted with a great variety of 
fruit trees , and next to it there is a small settlement W aiohewa 
with a mill, turned by the Te Ngae Creek. The shores of the 
