THE 0 H AUTO Grit API! Y OF HEW ZEALAND. 
the Harbour and City of Auckland, the Capital of New 
Zealand, with the districts of the rivers Kaipara, Waitemata, 
Tamald, Wairoa, Waihou or Thames, Mercury Bay, Kawia, 
Piako, Waipa, Waikato, Manukau, Tauranga, etc., compiled 
from various sources by J. Arrowsmith, 1842 (with branch 
maps: Auckland the Capital of New Zealand, surveyed by 
Belton Matthew, Surveyor-G-eneral of New Zealand, 1841 ; 
and a Trigonometrical Survey of the Harbour of the Waite- 
mata and the Isthmus which separates the waters of the 
Thames from those of the Manukau, by Captain Owen Stanley, 
R.N., and Belton Matthew, 1841) ; the maps of Dieffenbach’s 
travels, by Arrowsmith, &c. 
All the maps and surveys of New Zealand existing before 
1848, consisted of disconnected fragments; but it must be 
remembered that it is a country of an area of not less than 
630 square miles larger than the present Kingdom of Italy A 
The important survey of the New Zealand coast was under¬ 
taken by the command of the English Admiralty, under the 
direction of Captain J. Lort Stokes and Commander Byron 
Drury, in the surveying ships “Acheron” and “ Pondora,” 
and occupied a period of eight years, from 1848 to 1855, and 
now forms one of the most magnificent of the many produc¬ 
tions of the English navy. Besides the above-named com¬ 
manders, the following officers were engaged in this work : 
Commander Gr. H. Richards, B. J. Evans, it. Bradshaw, J. W. 
Smith, P. W. Oke, R. Burnett, PI. Kerr, T. Kerr, W. Blackney, 
H. Ellis, A. Banner, C. Stanley, J. M. Pridham, D. Pender, 
J. W. Hamilton, and C. Kettle. The result of this survey 
occupies fifty sheets, thirty-three of which are in the large 
chart formula (double elephant). They are carefully engraved 
on copper, and were published in twelve years, from 1850 to 
1861, in the following series:—fourteen sheets were published 
from 1850 to 1856, twenty-one sheets in the year 1857, and 
twelve from 1858 to 1861. Some sheets contain several plans 
in various scales, from the smallest 1:1.750.000 to the largest 
1:5000. In the smallest size is published the general chart, 
* The area of New Zealand is 4,703 German, and that of Italy 4,674 
German square miles* 
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