MITRE PEAK, MILFORD SOUND. 
CHAPTER XXVII. 
GENERAL GEOLOGICAL FEATURES OF OUR GLOBE. 
The Geology of New Zealand is so closely connected with 
that of the southern hemisphere, and it again with the other 
half of our globe, that it will not be altogether out of place 
to offer a few general remarks upon the whole, and in doing 
so, it will be necessary to recapitulate a portion of the preced- 
ing chapter. 
It is almost impossible to take up a map of the world, 
without observing how wonderfully several grand continental 
portions of it seem to dovetail into each other, and thus give 
rise to certain uniform features which encircle the entire 
globe. If the eye follows the western coast line of the two 
Americas, which almost extend from pole to pole with a grand 
central curve to the east, and then observes the opposite 
