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Rh The Wairaki, Borland, Dean, and Lillburn are streams of from 10 to 20 miles in length; they are all dependent on snow, more or less, for their supply, and being so, they are very fluctuating in size.

The other tributaries of the Waiau, not yet mentioned, are those running into the Te Anau and Manipori Lakes; the principal are the Upukerora, Eglinton, Clinton, Worsley, Glaisnock, Doon, and Spey. The Upukerora takes its rise in the Dunton Forest, to the east of the Dunton Peaks, and after a south-west course of upwards of 20 miles it bends suddenly to the north, and after running in that direction for more than a mile it falls into the Te Anau Lake at Patience Bay. The Eglinton takes its rise by two branches from the mountains that bound the head of Milford Sound; they unite below the east side of Mount Eglinton, and after flowing for several miles through a deep wooded gorge the open country occupied by Mr. Hodge is entered, and after a further course of 8 miles the Eglinton falls into the east side of the Te Anau Lake. Its general course, from where its branches join to its mouth, is south-west. The Clinton, like the Eglinton, takes its rise from the watershed of Milford Sound; its general direction is south by east; it enters the Te Anau Lake at its east head. A boat can be taken up the Clinton for 1 mile, and after that it is only 16 miles to the head of Milford Sound. The Worsley rises near Castle Mount, and flows down a deep wooded gorge, east by south, to the west head of the Te Anau Lake. The Glaisnock enters at the head of the north fiord of the Te Anau, after flowing in a south-east direction down a narrow, steep wooded gorge. The Doon has its rise near Mary Peaks, and only a few miles from the head of Caswell Sound and George Sound; it flows in an direction along a narrow, flat, wooded valley of about one-third of a mile in width to the head of the south-west arm of the middle fiord of the same lake. The Spey has its rise from the watershed of the West Coast, near the heads of Jail Passage and Breaksea Sound: for the greater part of its course it flows east by north through a very precipitous gorge; on emerging from it the Mica Burn joins it, and, after a further course of nearly 2 miles through a narrow wooded valley, the Spey falls into the bead of the west arm of the Manipori Lake.

The Kawarau is the issue of the Wakatipu Lake: it leaves the lake at the base of Peninsula Hill, its exit is obstructed by masses of rock that divide its volume into several parts that take the form of falls when the lake is high. For the first mile or two of its course the current of the Kawarau is sufficiently slow to admit of cattle swimming easily across it, afterwards it becomes more rapid; at the distance of nearly 3 miles from the lake it is joined