. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . rate of travelling or velocity being thus reduced,they would naturally deposit the greater portion of their contents on andaround the tops of these ranges. The remainder of the rain-clouds wouldpass on and become gradually dispersed by the higher temperature of theinterior plains. The more northerly columns of the rain-clouds would drawalong the Horse Eange to the highest peaks of the Kakanui Mountains andKyeburn Hill, and lose the greater amount of their contents among thesepeaks. At the same time the Maniototo Plain itself, lying
. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . rate of travelling or velocity being thus reduced,they would naturally deposit the greater portion of their contents on andaround the tops of these ranges. The remainder of the rain-clouds wouldpass on and become gradually dispersed by the higher temperature of theinterior plains. The more northerly columns of the rain-clouds would drawalong the Horse Eange to the highest peaks of the Kakanui Mountains andKyeburn Hill, and lose the greater amount of their contents among thesepeaks. At the same time the Maniototo Plain itself, lying immediately west ofthese ranges, together with itSwestern boundaries, the Mount Ida Eange andnorthern part of the Eough Eidge, would have but a reduced rain-fall to receive, reduced still further by the superior warmth of the plain itself. Evidences of Distribution of what do we find to be the case ? The experience of the oldestsettlers on the Upper Taieri Plains goes to show that the above \ xnM % S96^ ■JiirU. MAP Y Ijie l>ft.\-in (ffi7te TAIERI RIVER Scale of 3files. Arthub.—On the Taieri River Floods. 97 theory is correct. For instance, Mr. James Murison, who first tookup country there as a runholder in 1857, has assured me that, whilethe southerly storms rage around the Lammerlaw and Eock andPillar, the basin of the Upper Taieri Eiver itself escapes these to a greatextent. From the Kyeburn, all round the north and west side of the plainto the Totara, that is over an area of 280 square miles, or 180,000 acres,there is not a single stream but such as a man may easily jump Kyeburn stream has a rapid descent, and in floods rises to a consider-able height, but falls quickly. This I saw during the big flood of 1868,when camped on its banks. The streams then round to the Totara dis-charge very little rainfall into the Taieri; and the most received by MountIda flows into the Waitaki • while on the east
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