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and recrossing this range, are as follows : — Frorn 

 Koro-i-vono to Togaloa, at a height of 1,500 feet. 

 From Vuni Sawani to Savu-savu at 1,000 feet. From 

 Wai-wai, Savu-savu bay to Naduri at 1,800 feet ; La- 

 doga to Malaka at 1,500 feet ; and from Bua to AVai 

 Nunu at 1,000 feet. 



In passing over these mountains many striking and 

 frequently magnificent views present themselves. 

 Here forest and woodland, with valley opening into 

 valley in oft repeated succession ; there on one side 

 the open, undulating grass-covered country of Mac- 

 uata; on the other, the blue sea studded with islands 

 — with spots and lines of white foam where the sea is 

 breaking on the reefs ; all these, seen from a con- 

 siderable elevation, combine in forming a panorama of 

 which words can convey only a faint idea. 



Natawa bay, in the N.E. of the island, runs about 

 30 miles inland. At its S.W. extremity the distance 

 to Savu-savu bay is about 7 miles, and about 2-J 

 miles to the south coast. At one place this narrow 

 neck of land, joining the peninsula thus formed to 

 the mainland, is not more than 100 feet above the 

 sea. 



At the narrowest part there is a salt lake of about 

 150 acres in area. It is surrounded by hills, and has 

 communication with the sea by a deep narrow channel, 

 about 6 yards across at its narrowest, and about a 

 mile in length. Through this channel the tide runs 

 in and out with great velocity. From the appearance 

 of the flat land which borders the lake, it is conjectured 

 that the lake was at one time nearly double its present 

 size ; and the narrow ridge of land which separates 

 the lake from Natawa bay, also bears unmistakeable 

 evidence of having been under water. The lake and 



