The rivers of Canterbury form outlets for the lakes. Lake Sumner is drained by the Hurunui, Lake Coleridge by the Rakaia, and the Mackenzie Country lakes–Tekapo, Pukaki, and Ohau—by the Waitaki. Nearly all the Canterbury lakes lie at a considerable elevation above the sea, and are surrounded by characteristic alpine scenery. Lake Tekapo, about 2300 feet above sea level, is about fifteen miles long by two miles in average breadth. Lake Pukaki is about eleven miles long and three in average breadth, and is about 1600 feet above the sea. Buth these lakes lie on the main tourist route to the Mount Cook district. Lake Tekapo is twenty-six miles from Fairlie and sixty-five from Timaru, and its beautiful blue waters afford a most refreshing spectacle to eyes weary of the unrelieved Mackenzie plains. From the head of Lake Pukaki, thirty miles further on, a magnificent view of the Southern Alps is obtained. In North Canterbury, along the tracks which follow the river courses up to the Dividing Range, there are many small lakes beautiful enough to gain wide celebrity in any other country. Lake Sumner, seven miles long, lies at the head of the Hurunui. It is forty miles beyond Waikari, which is fifty miles by rail from Christchurch. Lake Heron is about thirty miles from Mount Somers, which is seventy-eight miles by rail from Christchurch. The lake is 2200 feet above sea level, and about 1600 acres in area, and is full of huge brown trout. Along the West Coast Road there are several small but picturesque lakes. Lake Lyndon, at the foot of Porter's Pass, thirteen miles from the railway terminus of Springfield, is about two miles and a half long, and a quarter of a mile broad. Lakes Pearson, Grassmere, and Lyndon, all on the West Coast Road, are heavily frozen in the page 13 winter, and supply fine skating ground. About nine miles from Lake Lyndon is Lake Coleridge, in the Rakaia Valley —a lovely stretch of water, eleven miles by one to two miles, very deep, like all the lakes in the glacier country, and well filled with trout. Further up the Rakaia are Lake Evelyn, Lake Ida, Lake Selfe, and other mountain tarns, all displaying the varied beauty which has made New Zealand mountain scenery famous.