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on each side of the real difficulties—these are two masses of overhanging rock, through which the track will have to be blasted; this is being done, and it is expected that the work will be completed in October.

In the naming of objects, those already in use in the District were always adopted; they are generally confined to a few creeks and perhaps a hill or two in the vicinity of the respective stations. The other names, I endeavoured to make either descriptive or suggestive: this, in the case of the more prominent peaks, appears to me to be of much consequence to the traveller, for they then become as so many finger-posts, pointing the way. The great landmarks, Leaning Rock, Double Cone, and Black Peak, I found of much service in determining my whereabouts at the beginning of the Survey; their names are legible in characters not to be mistaken.

In conclusion, I would state, on information received from the manager Messrs. Wilkin and Thomson’s station, that gold has been obtained in small quantities, several times, at Quartz Creek. The latest was in the month of April: a sawyer, before leaving the district for the winter, dug a hole on the banks of the Creek, and found fine gold all down through it; the find became richer the further down he went, at 13 feet the water coming in put a stop to further effort. The prospector was a digger of Californian and Australian experience; he expressed his opinion, that “Quartz Creek would turn out to be a paying gold field, and that when the winter was over, he meant to give it a further trial, with proper equipment.”

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient servant,

JAMES McKERROW,

District Surveyor.

Estimated Areas of the Natural Divisions of the Otago part of the Country Surveyed:

FORESTS.

Sq. Miles. Sq. Miles.
Dingle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Hawea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Matukituki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Wanaka Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

PASTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960

LAKES.
Wanaka, 75 sq. m.—(Otago part of Lake . . . . 72
Hawea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . —
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

BARREN
The country south of boundary line, and between west branch of Matukituki, and a line 2 miles west of the Wanaka Lake Country between Sentinel Peak and boundary line . . . . . . . . . . 31

Highest part of ridge be- . . . . Sq. Miles. Sq. Miles.
tween Hunter & Dingle rivers . . . 8
Do. do. Dingle & Timaru rivers . . . . 10
Do. do. Fog Peak and End Peak . . . . . . 48
Do. do. Cardrona Mount and Middle Peak . 15
Do. do. Double Cone and Ben Nevis . . . 34
Highest part of Pisa . . . . . . . . . . . 24
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,440

Altitudes above Sea Level, of the Principal Objects:

Feet.
Mount Aspiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9949
Mount Nix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9101
Mount Castor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8588
Mount Pollux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8633
Mount Alba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8268
Mount Alta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7833
Glacier Dome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7810
Double Cone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7688
Ben Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7650
Oblong Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7640
Black Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7566
Minaret Peaks (highest) . . . . . . . . . 7189
Triplet Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . 7064
Mount Albert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7063
End Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6926
Treble Cone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6888
Tent Ridge (highest peak) . . . . . . . . 6805
Pyramid Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6800
Cleft Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6768
Mount Motatapu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6720
Double Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6691
Mount Pisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6426
Cardrona Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . 6344
Middle Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6038
Knuckle Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5936
The Crown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5673
The Twin Peaks, next Lake . . . . . . . 5613
Roy’s Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5242
Breast Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5238
Rock Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4917
Isthmus Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4732
Grandview Mountain . . . . . . . . . . 4729
General height of Ridge between the Nevisburn and Clutha Valley . . 4642
Mount Maude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4368
Little Cruffel Peak . . . . . . . . . . 4187
Crucible Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4075
Lindis Peak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4051
Trig Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3795
Mount Barker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1990
Mount Iron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848
Terrace at mouth of Cardrona . . . . . 1562
Junction of the branches of the Matukituki . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1290
Hawea Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089
Wanaka Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 974
Clutha Valley, at the Junction of the Kawarau river with the Clutha river . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674