I. 
OBSERVATIONS UPON THE CHARTOGRAPHY OF 
NEW ZEALAND. 
BY DB. A. PETEEMANY 
The History and Progress of the Greographickl Knowledge 
and Chartography of Hew Zealand may be classified into 
four periods :— 
1642, The discovery by Tasman. 
1769, The investigation and survey by Cook. 
1848, Survey by the English Admiralty. 
1859, Commencement of the surveys in the interior by 
E. von Hochstetter and Julius Haast. 
The Dutch navigator, Abel Jansen Tasman, discovered 
Hew Zealand on the 13th December, 1642, observing from 
the westward the clouded summits of the Southern 
Alps. He sailed along the coast, passing Cook’s Straits 
and the Horthern Island up to the Three Kings. Although 
he saw the greater part of the West Coast of Hew Zealand, 
the result of his observations was very incomplete and 
erroneous, which is proved by the fact that he considered Hew 
Zealand as a part of the Terra Australis Incognita w T hich, 
according to his supposition, stretched to the far east, and was 
connected with the South Cape of America. 
The knowledge of Hew r Zealand made no advance for 
nearly a century, until the time when Cook anchored at 
Tauranga, Poverty Bay, on the East Coast, on the 8th of 
October, 1769; and it was on this his first visit and his second 
and third (1773-74, 1779), that he investigated Hew Zealand, 
sailed round it, and finished a survey of its entire coast. Hew 
Zealand was visited nearly at the same time by two Erench 
navigators, viz. :—in December, 1769, by Captain Surville, 
and in the year 1772 by the unfortunate Captain Marion, who 
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