THE CHAIfT0GRAPIIY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
Dashwood and Mitchell’s tour from Nelson to Lyttelton, along 
with a small map, appeared in the volume for 1851. J. T. 
Thompson’s account and map of what is now the Province of 
Southland in the volume for 1858. E. Stanford published in 
London, in the year 1856, a map of the Province of Canter¬ 
bury, showing freehold sections and pastufago runs; scale, 
1:220.000. J. Arrowsmith published two editions of his map of 
New Zealand on a scale of 1:2.400.000—one dated July, 
1851, the other, July, 1858. 
With the explorations and surveys of E. v. Hochstetter 
and J. Haast (which were commenced in 1859, and are still 
unfinished), began a new epoch in the geographical know¬ 
ledge and chartography of New Zealand.* Not only have 
their labours enlarged the existing knowledge, but they have 
thrown quite a new light on the geological and topographical 
condition of the interior, as hitherto the topographical con¬ 
figuration of the country has been much neglected by the 
colonial surveys. The general map of this work (Map I.), in 
the completion of which Hochstetter’s and Haast’s observa¬ 
tions have been used for the first time, will show at the first 
glance how much our former conception of New Zealand is 
enlarged and corrected. Of course, on it the observations of 
many others also have been recorded. 
The progress of the chartography of New Zealand is best 
shown in the various editions of Arrowsmith’s maps, of which 
there are three—1841, 1851, and 1858—which were compiled 
from official and other documents existing at those times. 
The edition of 1841 contains nothing but a coast line, and this 
very imperfect—here and there an error of half a degree; 
in the interior are only a few roughly noted lakes, rivers, and 
mountains. In the edition of 1851 the coast, if yet incom¬ 
plete, is corrected after the marine surveys, and the interior 
is filled up. But the edition of 1858 contains many additions 
* A report by Dr. J. Haast, Geologist of the Province of Canterbury, 
dated 3rd of March, 1863, describes his latest travels and surveys of the 
Southern Alps. This traveller had penetrated into the upper region of 
the Molyneaux River, with its magnificent lakes Wanaka and Hawea, to 
the West Coast, and discovered a pass through the chain of Alps at an 
elevation of only 1,612 feet, between the Wanaka Lake and the Awarua 
River. 
