THE PALL 
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out in front with every variety of ch arming vege- 
tation, and trees sending their pleasing shadows 
over all. Thus it is for some miles, until reaching 
the cemetery, cosily situated in a way-side hollow ; 
and almost opposite is the royal mausoleum, where 
the remains of the Kamehamehas lie entombed. The 
road narrows somewhat now, and the green taro 
patches and charming avenues afford a most agreeable 
relief to the eye, enhancing the beauty of the views 
from the various colours of the foliage, produced evi- 
dently by the fertilising showers from the clouds, 
which are occasionally seen lowering on the mountain 
peaks, where they are, as it were, held in check 
and condensed, producing numerous small waterfalls, 
leaping from rock to rock on all sides, and being 
again distributed by the natives for irrigating their 
taro patches, and for giving fertility and luxuriance 
to the plains below. 
The valley takes numberless eccentric windings, 
and the peculiarity of the scenery is, that the hills, 
which rise to several thousand feet, are precipitous 
ridges, broken up into all sorts of fantastic shapes, 
which suddenly terminate in deep precipices known 
as the Pali. 
The beauty of the scene from here is unsurpassed 
in the island : stretching away seaward are the coral 
reefs, with the white wavy line of endless surf break- 
ing restlessly over them ; while in the valley below 
are charming glimpses of vegetation ; clusters of 
