The Eruption of Mount Tarawera

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The eruption of Mt. Tarawera, in the North Island of New Zealand, took place on the 10th of June, 1886. I was not able to leave Christchurch at once, but arrived at Rotorua on the 26th of June. During my stay in the district, which lasted till 14th of July, I examined Rotomahana and Okaro, and went across the Kaingaroa plains to Galatea. Subsequently, with Prof. F. D. Brown and Prof. A. P. Thomas, I visited Lakes Rotoiti and Rotoehu. Description of the District. About 25 miles south-west of Lake Taupe is Ruapehu (fig. 1), a truncated cone 9195 feet high, covered with perpetual snow. Until lately it was thought to be extinct, and is so described by Dr. yon Hoehstetter ; but for several months past steam has occasionally been noticed issuing from the summit, and on the 16th of April last, Mr. L. Cutten, Surveyor, ascended the mountain and found the crater on the top to be 300 feet deep, with hot, eddying, and steaming water at the bottom, which had melted the snow all round for 40 feet, although about 100 feet above the water there was a fringe of ice. The next day a large column of steam, 100 feet high, ascended fromthe crater. No earthquakes are recorded in the neighbourhoodduring" the whole of this time. Between Ruapehu and Taupe liesTongariro, the principal cone of which, Ngauruhoö, as well as twoother smaller cones to the north, constantly emit steam. Ngauruhoöwas in active eruption on July 6,

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