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THE GEOLOGY OP NELSON. 
have met with oil all sides ; and I wish to take this opportunity 
of expressing my thanks to the Provincial Government lor the 
admirable arrangements which on its part were made so as to 
extend to the utmost limit the sphere of my explorations, and 
enable me to occupy to the greatest advantage the limited time 
at my disposal. 
Allow me, before proceeding further, to give you an account 
of my different journeys, and to detail to you the places which 
I have visited. 
I began in the immediate neighbourhood of the town of 
Nelson, by a short excursion to Brook Street Yalley, and a 
visit to Mr. Jenkins’ brown-coal mine. I then proceeded in 
the ‘ Tasmanian Maid,’ which the Government had chartered 
for this extra trip, to Croixelles Harbour and Current Basin, 
and examined the veins of copper ore which show themselves 
there. 
We proceeded up Current Basin as far as the Trench Pass, 
and on our return landed in the Bight of Owhaua, on the 
south-eastern corner of D’Urville’s. Island, where copper ore 
is also found. Prom thence we steamed, without loss of time, 
during the night, across to Golden Bay, where I went on shore 
at Collingwood, and visited the gold-fields and the bone caves 
of the Aorere valley. Thence I proceeded along the coast to 
Pakawau, and examined the coal-field there, and the graphite 
which is found in the hill at Taumatea. Beturning overland 
from Golden Bay to Nelson, I visited, on the way, the Parapara 
gold-field, the brown-coal deposit at Motupipi, followed the 
course of theTakakaT alley upwards, crossed the mountain range 
that divides the Takaka andBiwaka valleys, and passing through 
Motueka, reached Nelson by the Moutere and the Waimea. 
Another day was devoted to an examination of the Boulder 
Bank and the Arrow Bock. I next proceeded by the valley of 
the Maitai to an examination of the Dun Mountain. I next 
visited the Wakapuaka district and the Happy Yalley ; and, 
at a later date, in an opposite direction, spent some time in 
examining the fossiliferous schists of Bichmond and the Y\ airoa 
Yalley. 
After I had made myself acquainted with the geological 
relations of the nearer Tying districts of Golden and Blind 
Bays, arrangements were made for a more distant excursion 
