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north-west, point of Owliyee over the ishinds of 

 Mowec, Morotoi, and Woahoo, to west north- 

 west. The most eastern mountain on Mowee is 

 but httle inferior in heiglit to Wororay, and is simi- 

 lar in the grandeur of its form. The more western 

 is lower, and its summit appears to be rent in two 

 different clefts from north to south. 



The grand lines of the mountain descend on 

 Morotoi still lower, even to the flat western point 

 of this island. The mountain rises again in Woa- 

 hoo, where, with an entirely different form, it 

 scarcely reaches a quarter of the height of Owhyee. 

 Two dissimilar groups of mountains rise in the 

 island of Woahoo. The eastern and lower one 

 has a greater extent than the western, which 

 contains the higher summits. The chain, deeply 

 indented by well-watered and beautifully verdant 

 vallies, shoots up ragged summits in broken lines. 

 The woods descend lower than in Owhyee, upon 

 their declivities, to the sun-burnt plains, which 

 mostly surround these islands, and were once coral 

 reefs covered by the sea ; and such reefs extend 

 far into the sea from these plains. A break in the 

 reefy at the mouth of a stream produced by water 

 collected in the mountains, forms, on the southern 

 foot of the eastern mass of mountains, the secure 

 harbour of Hana-rura, from which place we made 

 our excursions in different directions through both 

 parts of the island. 



The nearest low liill behind Hana-rura is an old 

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