PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 
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Bailer, seeing that in the tables of positions in the New Zealand 
Pilot, those points, with some others between the Grey and Cape 
Farewell, are laid down in degrees, minutes, and seconds. In 
preparing my map I was therefore not a little surprised at finding 
great differences between the results of the survey of Mr. Kochfort, 
who started from a well fixed point, and the tables of positions in 
the New Zealand Pilot. 
In order that you may judge for yourself, I here place both 
results in juxtaposition. 
I TABLES OF POSITION. 
in ^ * i 4 
New Zealand Pilot. 
Mr. Rocheort’s 
Survey. 
Place. 
Particular 
Spot. 
Lat. S. 
Long. E. 
Lat. S. 
Long. E. I 
Grey River 
PerpendicularPoint 
Cape Foul wind 
Three Steeples 
* Buller 
Entrance 
Centre Cliff 
Extreme 
N orthern 
Entrance 
d. m. s. 
42 28 30 
42 8 
41 45 30 
41 43 20 
41 46 15 
d. m. s. 
171 1115 
171 19 
171 34 30 
171 35 15 
171 45 
d. m. s. 
42 23 45 
42* 3 5 
4143 5 
41 41 
41 42 20 
d. m. s. 
17111 40 
171 15 25 
171 28 30 
171 30 
171 36 20 
* I took the extreme of the Miko Cliffs. 
As it may be expected that within a short time the Grey and 
Buller rivers will be frequently visited by vessels, it is of the 
greatest importance to ascertain where the error lies. I may add, 
that my own bearings and observations accord very closely with 
Mr. Eochfort’s survey, and I believe they will be found correct, 
principally for the following reason. The three peaks of Mount 
Murchison, which are visible from Nelson, are also visible from 
the mountains above the Buller, near its mouth. I had an 
opportunity of fixing the position of these three peaks from the 
mountain itself, looking towards Nelson as well as towards Lake 
Eoto-iti and the adjacent mountain peaks, the positions of which 
I had before ascertained from the shores of the lake. I found 
their positions accord with my previous observations from all 
these points, as well as from two mountain peaks near the 
mouth of the Buller, which I ascended. On my return to 
Nelson, being anxious to check these bearings, I took them 
once more from two fresh points, and obtained a similar result, 
which would have been impossible had the positions of the 
Buller, Cape Foul wind, Omu Point, and Black Beef (or Northern 
Steeple) been inaccurately laid down in Mr. Eochfort’s survey of 
the coast line. A great number of barometric observations, many 
of them in conjunction with the results obtained by the boiling 
