about 2 miles from the coast and formed by the Natives for hauling canoes from the forest from what I could perceive from the elevations I occasionally walked over there does not appear to be much difficulty in contructing a road to New Plymouth that will run under the range of mountains or perhaps about the centre of the level country ¾ of a mile from the ridges. I returning homeward had a splendid view of the country from a Pah inland of Omata