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In the North Pacific, the Hawaian range has a west-northwest 

 course. The Sandwich or Hawaian Islands (fig. 24), from Hawaii 



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to Kauai, make up the southeasterly part of the range, about 400 

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a total length of nearly 2000 miles, — a distance as great as from 

 Boston to the Great Salt Lake in the Rocky Mountains, or from 

 London to Alexandria. Moreover, in this chain there are on 



