G2 
EXPLANATION OP THE MAPS, 
English feet. 
Whale Island, or Motu Hora, highest point ... 1167f 
White Island, or Whakari... ... ... 863f 
Mount Edgcumbe, eastern summit ... ... 2575f 
East Cape (East Cape Islet) ... ... 420f 
Between the Bast Coast and the Waiho River : 
Waipapa brook, on the coast from Tauranga to 
the Waiho ... ... ... ... 803S 
Heights of the Wanga chain, near the Wairere 
folia 
,,1 C4JXJ.P ' • t ••• ••• • » • 
Wairere river, immediately above the highest 
r* n 
• » i ••• • • • ••• 
Height of the pass over the Whanga chain, near 
the Wairere falls 
The height of the Waiwere Tails 
Waiho Flats, near Wairere Falls 
Whatiwhati, settlement at the foot of the Pate- 
tere plateau 
Castle Hill (Cape Colville chain) near Coro¬ 
mandel Harbour 
14146 
14426 
14816 
6706 
5736 
5376 
IGlOf 
MAP III. 
THE ISTHMUS OF AUCKLAND AND ITS EXTINCT VOLCANOS. 
The great southern part of the Northern Island of New 
Zealand is connected by a small isthmus with the north¬ 
western peninsula, on the parallel circle of 37* S. lat. The 
sea penetrates through the Hauraki Grulf on the Eastern 
Coast, forming many branching creeks, and washes in a south¬ 
westerly direction into the so-called Waitemata River upon 
the north side of the peninsula. On the West Coast—the 
stormy weather side of New Zealand—the ocean, penetrating 
through hard volcanic rocks in a narrow entrance, spreads 
out and forms the Manukau basin, the southern coast of this 
isthmus. The land between the two seas is only some five or 
six miles broad, and in two places where the Waitemata River 
forms small creeks in a southerly direction towards the 
Manukau basin it narrows to the width of one mile. These 
narrow strips have been used by the Maoris from ancient 
