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bunches away by every steamer : go to Punch Bo wl Hill 

 for a tropical picture that has few superiors in the world; 

 or if you are a climber and desire a larger horizon, see 

 the same from the summit of Round Top ; or reaching 

 still higher, overlook the whole from Tantalus, a peak 

 directly in the rear of Punch Bowl Hill ; or if a 

 member of the Alpine Club, try the rock cliffs of the bar- 

 rier mountains, that send their helmets into the windy 

 clouds. Go to the valleys of Nuuanu, Pauoa, Palolo and 

 Manoa, go to the sea-shore and cocoanut groves at Wai- 

 kiki. Take a horseback ride by moonlight around Dia- 

 mond Head, returning by the telegraph station, Go 

 around the island on foot, on horse, or in a carnage, 

 either by the way of Waianae, Koolau and the pali, or 

 take a shorter and rougher ride by way of Coco Head, 

 Waimanalo, Kaneohe, and the Pah. 



THE NUTJANU PALI. 



Six miles back of Honolulu, at the abrupt head of Nuu- 

 anu vaUey, is a precipice remarkable among the most re- 

 markable wonders of nature. It affords, in one view, a 

 picture of wild, natural scenery, that of its kind is unri- 

 valled in the known world. The mountains, that from 

 the Honolulu ocean verge, rise from the sea level to a 

 height of 4000 feet, do not descend in sober mountain 

 fashion to the north side, but are cleft in two, one half 

 left standing, the other gone, no one knows whither. 

 Nowhere is the perpendicular rock less than 800 feet 

 deep ; in many places the bold front is thrice this appal- 

 ling depth. Below are plains and hills, rolling prairies 

 on a small scale, containing sugar and rice plantations, 

 grazing ranches, extinct craters, etc. At the water's 



