232 HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
a distant sea view are shown in the following cuts, which, though 
unfinished sketches, illustrate a point of geological interest. 
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KAHOOLAWE, BEARING NORTH. MOLOKAI, BEARING NORTHEAST, 
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LANAI, BEARING NORTHEAST. 
Kahoolave is a low nearly level island, lying seven miles south 
of Maui. It is but twelve miles long and five broad, and has an 
area not exceeding fifty square miles, with the highest part about five 
hundred feet above the sea. The surface is barren, and there is no 
fresh water, excepting a brackish pool; facts which are explained by 
its little elevation, and its situation under the lee of Hale-a-kala. 
Cliffs two hundred feet high nearly encircle the island, and are dis- 
tinctly stratified; and the layers of basaltic rock, as seen from ship- 
ISLAND OF KAHOOLAWE, 
board, have a slight but perceptible dip away from the centre. There 
is an extinct crater upon the highest part of the island, which, like 
Mokua-weo-weo, is not surrounded by a prominent cone. Besides 
this central pit, 1 was informed that there are two extinct cones re- 
sembling Diamond Hill of Oahu, though smaller: one of them, 
Canapo, is near the northeast side, and the other, Lipi-lipi, is towards 
the northwest. 
The island resembles the summit of a flatdome. Calculating from 
the extent and height, allowing two hundred feet for the cliff, we 
obtain for the inclination of the surface only fifty to a hundred feet to 
the mile. 
Lanai lies eighteen miles north of west of Kahoolawe, and but eight 
miles from the southwest shores of Maui. It is twenty miles long, 
about nine broad, and has an area of one hundred and fifty square 
miles; its longer side ranges with the general course of the group. 
A sloping mountain about 1800 feet high, intersected by valleys run- 
ning in the direction of the slopes, forms its southeastern end; while 
