514 
rents have been made passable by building timber weirs across them , and 
filling up their beds to a uniform level with stones and gravel. Through 
I he swampy forest the ground has been drained and fascined for many miles, 
whilst the whole length of the road has been thoroughly metalled. Amongst 
the bridges, that over the Taipo, 270 feet long, built upon pies with steel 
shoes, driven into a mass of granite boulders, deserves mention, as being 
a difficult work successfully executed, and which has, up to the present time, 
resisted the heaviest tloods, although the stream has been at times blocked 
with drift timber from bank to bank. 
Altitudes along the Arthur's Pass road. 
Cook's Accommodation House 217 
White’s Accommodation House 623 
Southern base of Little Race Course Hill 995 
M’Cray’s Accommodation House 1327 
Riddle’s Accommodation House, foot of Porter’s Pass 2091 
Summit of Porter’s Pass 3234 
Lake Lyndon 2814 
Watershed between Lake Lyndon and River Porter 2852 
Springs, sources of River Porter 2609 
Riverbed of River Porter, crossing of road 2270 
Summit of terrace on its western side 2473 
Stables of Cobb and Co., near Mr. Enys’s station 2548 
Top of terrace of Broken river 2413 
Bed of Broken river, where crossed by road 2168 
Top of Cragieburn saddle 2843 
Cragieburn Accommodation House 2-221 
Lake Pearson ^09o 
Roches moutounees, near River Cass and Lake Grasmere, eastern base 2157 
Road crossing of River Cass 18 /9 
Saddle between the Cass crossing and the River Waimakariri . . . 1938 
Bed of Waimakariri between the two cuttings 1863 
Bealey Township, Police reserve 2155 
Southern foot of Arthur’s Pass (Mr. Smith’s camp) 2534 
Arthur’s Pass, highest summit 3038 
Southern foot of Moraine 2697 
Summit of Moraine 2,835 
Mr. Wright’s camp 2288 
Riverbed of Otira, near first bridge 2026 
Junction of the two branches of the Otira near the stockyard . . . 1449 
