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ering it at such times unsafe; but Niumahi at the 

 month of the river is a safe shelter for small craft 

 in all seasons. This place is the residence of the Gov- 

 ernor and other officers of the island. 



Leaving the steamer, going inland, the mountains 

 and valleys will be found covered with forests, except- 

 ing where fires and the woodman's ax have denuded 

 the land. The high shore plain which forms here, ex- 

 tending with varying width around the southern, east- 

 ern and northern sides of the island, is a region of 

 grass and shrubbery, shaded with occasional groves of 

 pandanus and kukui trees. On this windward side of 

 Kauai, the mountain tops are covered with rain clouds, 

 and the declivities are threaded with white cascades 

 streaming down almost vertically in uninterrupted 

 lines, one, two, and even three thousand feet. 



LIHUE, 



Two miles inland from the bay, is the site of one of the 

 pioneer sugar plantations, which is worthy of note, for 

 its extent and its success, but particularly for its system 

 of irrigation, by means of a canal which brings the 

 mountain water over a distance of ten miles to every 

 cane field. The estate is the projDerty of a Joint Stock 

 Company, of which Mr. Paul Isenberg is the resident 

 manager and part owner. It comprises about ten 

 thousand acres, running from the shore to the moun- 

 tains and including extensive tracts of level plains, 

 from Nawiliwili Bay to Wailua River, sufficient for 

 several sugar estates. It is considered one of the best 

 conducted and most profitable plantations in the group, 

 as it is one of the oldest. 



Between Lihue and Koloa is a precipitous basaltic 



