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56 EXPLANATION OF THE MAPS.

which the natives have designated as the wives and
children of the two giants.

In a north- easterly direction, a few miles distant from the
coast in the Bay of Plenty, is situated the second active
volcano of New Zealand, Whakari (White Island), 863
feet high, from the crater of which ascends, uninter-
uptedly, large white clouds of vapour. The distance
between these two large volcanos amounts to 120 miles,
and between them the volcanic agency steams and boils
in more than a thousand places from deep furrows and
fissures, a sign of the continual subterraneous fire, while
numerous lakes are formed by the sunken ground, and
which represents the Lake District, so celebrated for its
boiling springs, fumaroles, and solfataras; or, as the
natives call them, the ngawhas and puias, in the southern
parts of the Province of Auckland (vide expl. Map 4).

5. The volcanic formation of Auckland zone is of basaltic
lava (vide expl. Map 3).
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RECORD OF THE HEIGHTS OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE
PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.

† Parts which have been adjusted by the marine survey ("New Zealand
Pilot," and English charts).
ɓ Barometric measures, by Hochstetter.
* Estimated.

English feet.
Auckland - Meterologic Observatory of the Royal
Engineer Department ... ... ... ... ... 140†
Claremont House, upper end of Princes Street 130ɓ
Kaipara Hourbour, West Coast:
Te Karanga Mountain, on the River Otamotea 1440†
Wakakuranga, mountain on the Oruawharu
River... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 476†
Opara, Mount .. ... ... ... ... ... ... 378†
Auckland Peak, by Otau Creek ... ... ... ... 1023†
Koharanga, on the Kaipara River ... ... ... 326†
Titirangi chain, between the Waitakeri and the
Manukau Harbour:
Mount Tea Wekatuku ... ... ... ... ... 1430†