MANONO—APOLIMA—SAVAIL 333 
ISLAND OF MANONO. 
Manono is a low island, four miles in circumference, situated a mile 
west of Upolu, to which it is united by the coral reef. Its gently 
sloping surface rises to a rounded elevation near the centre of the 
island, not exceeding four hundred feet in height. The rocks are in 
layers, and resemble those of Upolu. 
Manono is a continued grove from one end to the other. It is 
densely populated, and, although small, is politically the most influ- 
ential island of the group. 
ISLAND OF APOLIMA. 
Two miles west of Manono, and about five from Savau, stands the 
natural fortress Apolima. A high bluff, from three hundred to four 
hundred and fifty feet, forms an inaccessible shore on all sides except 
the northern, where it is partially broken down, and a passage through 
the walls barely wide enough for a single boat opens into a circular 
bay. This bay or harbour forms the interior of the island; on each 
side of it the shores slope rapidly upward to the top of the bluff. 
Apolima is the summit of an extinct crater, and the harbour occu- 
pies its bottom. The different layers of rock he curving over one 
another very irregularly, and, along the outer shores, they dip on all 
sides away from the crater. ‘The island resembles Nuutele, and is 
probably of similar origin. 
The above few remarks are the results of a distant view, and glean- 
ings from the observations of the officers who surveyed the island.* 
ISLAND OF SAVAIL 
Savaii, the largest of the Samoan Islands, contains five hundred 
and fifty square miles, and measures forty miles in length, by twenty 
in breadth. It isa single volcanic mountain. From the sea, the land, 
as seen in a distant view, rises with a very gradual slope—five or six 
degrees—and with a nearly unbroken surface, as in the annexed out- 
* There is a view of this island in the Narrative of the Expedition, vol. ii, p. 107. 
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