EXPLANATION OF THE MAPS. 
which the natives have designated as the wives and 
children of the two giants. 
In a north-easterly direction, a few miles distant from the 
coast in the Bay of Plenty, is situated the second active 
volcano of New Zealand, Whakari (White Island), 86!5 
feet high, from the crater of which ascends, uninter¬ 
ruptedly, large white clouds of vapour. The distance 
between these two large volcanos amounts to 120 miles, 
and between them the volcanic agency steams and boils 
in more than a thousand places from deep furrows and 
fissures, a sign of the continual subterraneous fire, while 
numerous lakes are formed by the sunken ground, and 
which represents the Lake District, so celebrated for its 
boiling springs, fumaroles, and solfataras; or, as the 
natives call them, the ngawhas and puias , in the southern 
parts of the Province of Auckland (vide expl. Map 4). 
5. The volcanic formation of Auckland zone is of basaltic 
lava (vide expl. Map 3). 
EECOED OF THE HEIGHTS OF THE SOUTHEBN PAET OF THE 
PEOVINCE OF AUCKLAND. 
t Parts which, have been adjusted by the marine survey (“New Zealand 
Pilot, 5 ’ and English charts). 
h Barometric measures, by Hochstetter. 
* Estimated. 
English feet. 
Auckland —Meteorologic Observatory of the Royal 
Engineer Department ... ... ... 140f 
Claremont House, upper end of Princes-street 130& 
Kaipara Harbour , West Coast: 
Te Karanga Mountain, on the River Otamotea 1440f 
Wakakuranga, mountain on the Oruawharu 
River... ... ... ... ... 476f 
Opara, Mount ... ... ... ... 378f 
Auckland Peak, by Otau Creek ... ... 1023f 
Koharanga, on the Kaipara River ... ... 326f 
TUirangi chain , between the Waitakeri and the 
Manalcau Harbour: 
Mount Tea W ekatuku 
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1430f 
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