. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . with these were stone implements of various kinds (reduced to one-third natural size in PI. YII., figs. 1 to 4), and of several other varietiesof rock besides the chert which lies on the surface. The form and contentsof these cooking ovens correspond exactly with those described by Mantellin 1847, as occurring on the sea coast; and among the stone implementswhich Mantell found in them, he remembers some to have been of the samechert which occurs in situ at this locality, fifty miles in the interior. Thegreater nuniber of these chert
. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . with these were stone implements of various kinds (reduced to one-third natural size in PI. YII., figs. 1 to 4), and of several other varietiesof rock besides the chert which lies on the surface. The form and contentsof these cooking ovens correspond exactly with those described by Mantellin 1847, as occurring on the sea coast; and among the stone implementswhich Mantell found in them, he remembers some to have been of the samechert which occurs in situ at this locality, fifty miles in the interior. Thegreater nuniber of these chert specimens found on the coast are with the restof the collection in the British Museum. There is another circumstance whichincidentally supports the view that while the Moas still existed in greatnumbers, the country was open and regularly traversed by the natives engagedin hunting. Near the old Maori ovens on the coast, Mantell discovered a verycurious dish made of steatite, a mineral occurring in New Zealand only on the TRANS. ,:PV/]
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