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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

Plains

Plains.

There are some considerable areas of tolerably level land in the interior, the largest being the Maniototo Plains, the Idaburn, Manuherikia, and Upper Clutha Valleys. Their dimensions are approximately as follows: Maniototo Plains, length, twenty-eight miles; average breadth, ten miles; Idaburn valley, twenty-five miles by four miles; Manuherikia Valley, thirty-five miles by four miles; Upper Ciuths Valley, thirty-three miles by five miles.

The Taieri Plain, nearer the roast, is about the same size as the Idaburs Valley, and is very fertile. Other plains are the Waitaki in the north, the Toko, mairiro, the Strath-Taieri, the Tapanui, and the fertile Inch-Clutha, lying between the two branches of the Clutha River, and consisting entirely of alluvial deposit There is also a good deal of low country, chiefly rolling downs, on the south west side of the Clutha near the sea.