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A little Limosella'l also, grew here in the sand. On 
the face of a damp cliff, near a small watercourse which 
trickled down the rocks, I discovered a peculiar succu¬ 
lent plant, bearing a raceme of obovate red drupae. 
These, with a curious moss, from the wet rocks in this 
locality, comprised the whole of my collection in this 
day’s journey. Here, on the sandy beaches, feeding on 
small marine insects, the Dusky Plover (Charadrius 
obscurus ) and Southern Godwit (Limora australis) were 
in large flocks. The natives call the former, Tutu- 
ruwatu; and the latter, Kuaka. The Godwit is, when 
in season, very fat, and good eating. 
The next morning we continued our course by the 
sinuous shores of Manukau Bay. We soon reached a 
native village, where, gaining a supply of potatoes, &c., 
we recruited our strength, and, engaging a canoe, pad- 
died to the upper extremity of the harbour; landing at 
Otahuhu, the isthmus connecting the northern and 
southern parts of the Northern Island of New Zealand. 
The appearance of the strata in the low cliffs at this 
place is very curious, and worthy the consideration of 
the geologist. Alluvial earth, clay, volcanic sand, pipe 
clay, and peat, present themselves in beds one aJ)ove 
another, the peat being invariably underneath. Steatite , 
in small masses, I found mixed among the clay. A 
stratum of fine white clay, much resembling pipe clay, 
is generally visible below the bed of volcanic sand, 
which I believe to consist of either disintegrated lava 
and pumice, or fine white volcanic ashes. In the sand 
and mud beneath the cliff over which the tide at high- 
water flows, calcined and charred roots, and portions of 
the lower trunks and stems of trees and shrubs abound, 
still standing in the position in which ages back they 
