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is two feet dec]). The basaltic pieces, however, must have been 

 brought from a distance of several miles. Tradition has it that all 

 the stones lor the walls were brought from a hill in Kwa, Oahu, 

 called "Puuopalalii" which is of volcanic origin ; the earliest ac- 

 count must have related to these few lava rocks. The dark stones 

 were more numerous along the north wall than on the south, and 

 those found in position were about thirteen feet apart. The natives 



PA MAKIAWA 



af PULEOU 



PEARL HARBOR 



Sca/e of feef 



RAMAK/AWA 

 near AWAAWAOLOHL 

 PEARL HARBOR 



5c*/e of fee/ 



A***' 



ttJ< 



<+ 



FIG. 



2. PLAN OF PA MAKIAWA 

 AT PULEOU. 



FIG. 3. PLAN OF PA MAKIAWA 

 NEAR KEANAPUAA. 



called them "men" who drove back the fish attempting to pass 

 over the wall. When newly laid, the dark stones would have con- 

 trasted very strongly with the light color of the coral rock, and 

 undoubtedly fulfilled their purpose then, but when seen, they were 

 so thickly covered with mollusca and barnacles as to be well nigh 

 indistinguishable from the rest. It has been claimed that the dark 

 stones had been worked by hand to resemble sharks' heads, but 

 an examination showed them to have been the result of natural 

 cleavages, and their shape undoubtedly influenced the builders in 

 their selection. The best shaped specimen of each kind of stone 



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