HEIGHTS ON TOKATEA RANGE, COROMANDEL.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4722, 12 October 1872, Page 2

HEIGHTS ON TOKATEA RANGE, COROMANDEL.

The following table of heights oil the Tokatea Range, taken by barometer, has been forwarded to us by our Coromandel correspondent, and as the several tables may prove of some use to members of the Auckland Institute and many of our genetal readers we have much pleasure in publishing the information :—: —

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Ther- Baio- Height Locality. mometer. meter, in feet. Sea level 46deg. . 30 580 . . 0 Bridge at Karaks, Creek . . — ..SO 570 . . 9a Mr. Aitken's house .. — . . 30 500 .. 72 Buffalo Town . . . . 49deg. . . 30 4iO . . 108 Mr. Henney's house . . SOdeg. . . 30 430 . . 135 Lower end of Tramway .. — .. 30*440 „ 126 Bridge at N Z Bstteiy . . — . . 30 300 . . 252 Bottom of Ist grade . . 54deg. . . 30-mo . . 342 Bottom of 2nd grade . . — . . 29 98i) . . 540 Bottom of 3i d grade . . — . . 29 805 . . 643 Bottom of 4th grado .. — .. 29 785 .. 895 Bottom of sth grade . . 60deg . . 29 540 . . 936 Bottom of 6th grade . . 51deg . . 29 375 . . 1084 Top of 6th grade .. .. — .. 29190 .. 1251 Bismaick Hotel (saddle) . — .. 29-170 .. 1263 b Tokatea ) Bennetts — .. 29150 .. crossing I Tramway . . — . . 2f)'330 . . 1107 c' Bottom of Ist grade .. — . . 29 435 . . 1017 Bottom of 2nd grade .. — .. 29 590 .. 873 Margaretta platt . . . . — . . 29 740 . . 738 Top of llorse Tramway . . — . . 29 855 . . 639 d Bottom of Horse Tra way.. — .. 30 015 .. 490 Bottom of self-acting grade — .. 30 185 .. 337e Bennet's battery site .. — .. 30210 .. 315/ a. 9 feet allowed for 1-100 of an inch. b. 1,251 feet if by 8{ barometer fell 1-50". c Allowed for fall of barometer. cl. Fall on Horse Tramway, 149 feet. c Fall on lower grade, 153 feet. /. Above sea level.