Odin, 9700 feet high (the Maori name i.s Tapuenuka), Thor (8700 feet) 
and Freya (8500 feet) • — have been separated from the province 
of Nelson since 1859 as the new province of Marlborough. 1 
Between the Eastern and Western Ranges is the deep in- 
dentation of the coast which forms Blind Bay, and from the southern 
extremity of which the land rises gradually towards South to a 
1 1 eight of 2000 feet above the level of the sea, forming an undulat- 
ing hilly country, which extends" along the lakes Rotoiti and Ro- 
torua, past Mt. Murchison to the point, were Southeast of the Spencer 
View of Lake Rotoiti in the Province of Nelson. 
mountains the Eastern and Western Ranges, converging in the line 
of their strike, meet together. The hills near Nelson bear the name 
of the Moutere hills. They are intersected by numerous rivers run- 
ning in deeply channelled , terraced valleys. The Motueka and 
Waimea rivers empty into Blind Bay, while the Buller river 
takes a transverse direction from the Eastern to the Western Ranges 
1 The Capital of this new province is Picton on I lie Waitohi Bay, one of the 
inmost recesses of Queen Charlotte Sound, with about 800 inhabitants. The pro- 
vince contains good, arable soil and pasture-grounds (about 200,000 acres), ex- 
porting already from the ports Underwood and Queen Charlotte Sound considerable 
quantities of wool. The landward Kaikoras, according to (lie statements of some 
colonists in the vicinity, are said to be of volcanic origin. Perhaps those colossal 
mountain-cones consist of porphyry, or, if bearing a more recent date, of trachyte 
and andesite. 
