THE 
TASMANIAN JOURNAL 
NATURAL SCIENCE. 
APRIL, 1845. 
Art. X. — Memoranda of an Excursion, made in the 
Northern Island of New Zealand , in the summer of 
1841-2; intended as a contribution towards the as- 
certaining of the Natural Productions of the New 
Zealand Groupe; with particular reference to their 
Botany . By Rev. William Colenso. 
[Continued from No. viii. p. 234.] 
The next morning I resumed my journey. Gaining 
the summit of the hill before me, I had an extensive 
view of the interior. Hill rose on hill (Pelion on Ossa) 
in continuous succession, as far as the eye could reach. 
To the left, was Wakapunake (the fabled residence of 
the gigantic Mod ), an immense table-topped hill, or 
rather mountain; while to the right, far away in the 
distance, a peculiarly precipitous mountain cast its bold 
outline in fine relief into the sky; this, my native guide 
informed me, was Waikare, to which place we were 
going. Time, however, would not permit a lengthened 
gaze, so, descending the hill, I proceeded on. Here, 
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