PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 
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eac replace the huge rocks over which we had wearily dragged 
or several days, we found, on our way to Cape Farewell, several 
goo sized streams flowing in a northerly direction from the 
gram ic and slaty mountains left behind at Kaurangi point. 
re aceous hills again appear, between which, near the coast, 
+ 4 ? mi °f drift-sand, the former lying at the western base of 
,. akamarama range, which itself forms the western boundary 
0 e Aorere valley, and attains in the Haidinger peak, its 
grea cs elevation of about 4,000 feet. This range terminates 
near i akawau, and it is here that the cretaceous hills, which, 
south of the West Wanganui inlet, attain an altitude of 1,000 feet, 
an stuke across the island, only broken through in that interval 
by the marshy valley of the Mangamangarakau which forms the 
southern arm of the inlet, reach the east coast, covering the 
co.intry to Cape^ Farewell, and presenting the same physical cha¬ 
racter as the previous limestone country, deep gullies and steep 
hills, often with perpendicular cliffs on both sides, and which at 
Cape Farewell are still 500 feet high. 
As my distinguished friend Dr. Hochstetter has already treated 
ol the formation of the sand-spit which commences at this cape, I 
shall not offer any remarks upon this interesting phenomenon, 
which, from the summit of Cape Farewell, offers so striking an 
object to the eye of the observer. 
TABLES OP ALTITUDES. 
Tlie numbers marked with a ^ are the results of observations obtained both 
with the aneroid barometer and with the boiling water apparatus. 
* Brook-street-hill, near Nelson . 
Fox-hill ....... 
Saddle between Wai-iti and Motueka valleys 
Mr. Hooker’s station in Motueka valley 
Saddle between Rainy river and Lake-house valley 
* Lake-house ...... 
* Lake Roto-iti ...... 
Mount Robert, northern plateau, above lake 
* Mount Robert, summit .... 
Junction of Howard with Roto-iti river 
Summit of hill between Howard and Lake Roto-r 
* Lake Roto-roa ..... 
Mount Maclean . ..... 
Mount Murchison, north-western summit . 
„ south-eastern summit 
oa 
* 
Saddle between Leader creek and sources of Man 
Tiraumea plains ...*.• 
* Junction of the Roto-iti and Roto-roa rivers, forming the 
* Junction of the Mangles with the Buller 
* Junction of the Mataki-taki with the Buller 
Mount Francis . 
* Junction of the Maruia with the Buller . 
* Centre of the Maruia plains 
gles 
Buller 
FEET. 
2,441 
263 
1,174 
879 
2,324 
1,589 
1,881 
4,722 
6,144 
1,419 
3,415 
1,623 
3,688 
4,672 
4,843 
2,329 
1,124 
1,127 
509 
427 
2,135 
334 
1,321 
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