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scale in Nduke (on the maps Kulambangara) near New 

 Georgia. The terraces were banked up with stones." 

 Dr. Rivers tells me that terraced irrigation is found in 

 the northern part of Santo in the New Hebrides. 



An immense amount of terraced irrigation is found 

 in New Caledonia. Glaumont speaks of huge works for 

 taro cultivation consisting of terraces with stone and clay 

 walls, thus having the effect of steps on the sides of the 

 hills. " The valley of Tene was the bottom of a basin, 

 and the mountains which surrounded it were the sides ; 

 the spectator at the centre enjoying the same coup d'oeil 

 as if he were in the middle of a Roman circus." 52 



According to the information of Mr. Hocart, irrigated 

 terraces in Fiji are "almost, if not quite confined to the 

 islands as opposed to Viti Levu. It must be noted that 

 in Viti Levu they can plant taro in dry land on the 

 slopes owing to the 'damp and possibly the soil. They 

 cannot in the islands, except Vanua Lava. . . . Irrigation 

 was used for taro in Hawaii. . . . Terraces do not occur 

 in Tonga unless it may be in Kao and Tofua, for the 

 simple reason that the islands are flat and have no 

 streams. I have seen none in Rotuma : they plant in 

 dry land." 



In the Marquesas, " Dans toutes les vallees on peut 

 trouver des series de gradins, de plates-formes plus ou 

 moins larges, plus ou moins longues, selons les indications 

 de la pente du terrein." These terraces have stone support- 

 ing walls, and they have canals for their irrigation.* 



Fenced fields, terraces and irrigation works are found 

 in the lesser Paumotus and in Easter Island. 54 



"'- Glaumont, " La culte de 1'igaune et du taro en nouvelle-Caledonie." 

 U anthropologic, VIII. 



53 Dr. Toutain, "Notes sur les Constructions et Monuments des 

 Marquesas." V Anthropologic, VIII., p. 542. 



54 Ratzel, I., p. 254. 



