EXPLANATION" OP THE MAPS. 
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which now threatens my own country should unhappily interfere 
to prevent the completion of the peaceful scientific undertaking 
of the Expedition to which I belong, it will give me great 
pleasure to forward to Auckland copies of our publications 
respecting New Zealand, accompanied by an atlas, containing 
the maps and other illustrations. 
In concluding this lecture, I cannot omit the opportunity of 
saying a few words of farewell to the inhabitants of this 
Province. 
Now that I am on the point of leaving Auckland, I turn in 
memory to the hour in which I made up my mind to leave my 
friends on board the Frigate “ Novara” and to remain for a while 
in New Zealand. I can assure you it was an hour of great- 
anxiety, but I am glad to say I have never regretted the decision 
to which I with so much difficulty brought myself. Having 
received assistance in my labours from all sides, I have arrived 
at results which have afforded me much satisfaction, and which 
I hope will not be without good fruit to the present and future 
inhabitants of this Province. Having at first felt some difficulty 
in making up my mind to remain, I now feel a similar difficulty 
in leaving. Home ties, however, are drawing me homewards, 
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and I must quit the country in which I have spent so many 
happy days. In parting, I have one request to make—that you 
will remember me as kindly as I will remember you 3 and I 
have one wish—which is for the prosperity of the colony of 
New Zealand, and the advancement of the Province of 
Auckland. 
EXPLANATION OF THE MAPS. 
By Dr. Ferdinand v. Hocjistetteb. 
MAP I. 
NEW ZEALAND.—GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
JJew Zealand consists of two large and several small 
Islands, which form a broad strip of land extending from the 
South-West to the North-East, and at its Northern end pro¬ 
longed by a narrow Peninsula in a North-Westerly direction. 
The outlines are very similar to those of Italy in a reversed 
