. Geology of the provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand, a report comprising the results of official explorations. or those of my readers who are not acquainted with Mr. Dobsonsable Report, I have annexed a copy of his ingenious map, on whichall the principal features in question are clearly indicated. It is true,as before observed, that the Hurunui-Teramakau line shows thisradiating structure most strikingly, but all the other valleys, althoughnot so clearly indicated, have similar features : thus, to give a fewinstances—there is Harmans Pass at the head of the Waimakariri,leading
. Geology of the provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand, a report comprising the results of official explorations. or those of my readers who are not acquainted with Mr. Dobsonsable Report, I have annexed a copy of his ingenious map, on whichall the principal features in question are clearly indicated. It is true,as before observed, that the Hurunui-Teramakau line shows thisradiating structure most strikingly, but all the other valleys, althoughnot so clearly indicated, have similar features : thus, to give a fewinstances—there is Harmans Pass at the head of the Waimakariri,leading into the Taipo ; Sealys Pass at the head of the Godley river,leading into the Whataroa ; and the deep depression between MountCook and Mount Stokes, the direct continuation of the Tasman riverand Hooker glacier valleys. A similar well defined opening is thealpine saddle between the Moorhouse range and Mount Holmes, atthe head of the Dobson river; whilst Dochertys Pass, at the head ofthe Clarke river, might be pointed out as continuing the direction ofthe Makaroa line over Haasts Pass to the starting point in j »- 3 O ?£ ~ ,rt 3 1 • £ ^t>< c .t: s -* o o Q » ;f^ufflQiH-»a o . T3 P > ~ if £ M ro-^-iovo «>.cc d\ o Canterbury and Westland. 177 CHAPTER II. Orogeaphical Features. Although in the first part I have given many details as to the physicalaspect of the Southern Alps, and the divergent chains branching offfrom them in different directions, a short description of the principalorographical features will be necessary to understand the superficialconfiguration of mountains and valleys, by which the climate on bothsides of the Alps has been so remarkably modified. On looking at atopographical map of Canterbury and Westland,* we observe that thegeneral direction of the longitudinal chain running from MountHolleston near the northern, to Mount Aspiring on the southernboundary, is from north-east to south-west; also, that it generallyconsists of on
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