CHAPTER XI 



DESCRIPTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND GENERAL PHYSICAL 

 FEATURES {continued) 



The Koro-tini Range or Table-land 



The level-topped range that forms the mountainous backbone 



of the island for a distance of nearly lo miles is one of the 



remarkable features of Vanua Levu.^ In the general profile of the 



island it is named the Koro-tini Table-land on account of the level 



profile which it presents whether viewed from the north or from 



the south. But this is merely its appearance en masse. When it 



is examined in detail it is found that although much of the range 



has an elevation between 2,000 and 2,400 feet above the sea, it 



attains an elevation of about 3,000 feet in the case of two gently 



sloping peaks. With regard also to its table-top, it is necessary to 



remark that whilst in some portions of the range the summit is 



Droad and level, in others it is much cut up into ridges, and in 



Dthers again it presents a single narrow crest. Nor can we realise 



)n looking at the profile the extent to which its slopes have been 



:arved out by river-erosion, and we get no indication of the several 



ofty spurs that descend north and south far into the plains, as in 



he case of the spur west of Sueni and in that terminating in the 



<^oro-tini Bluff. In the profile the eye ignores the details with 



vhich the investigator during many toilsome ascents has filled the 



)ages of his note-books. To this extent it is useful in that it 



I enables him to rise a little above the level of his facts, and permits 



] dm (to employ a figure-of-speech) to regard the style and general 



I haracter of the edifice without being exclusively absorbed in the 



: tudy of the bricks. 



This range, which extends from a mile or two west of Sealevu 

 1 D a couple of miles east of Sueni, is connected on the west with 

 1 he Va-lili Range by the Waisali Saddle before described, and on 

 ^ It rises in the background of the view. 



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