THE VALLEY OF WAIPIO, IN OWWYIIEE, GGl 
«s like a map, (with its numerous inhabitants, cottages, plantations, 
lish-ponds, and meandering streams, on the surface of which the 
light canoe was moving to a fro,) appeared in beautiful miniature. 
Makoa, our guide, led the way down the steep cliffs. The descent 
was difficult, and it W'as quite dark before we reached the bottoni. 
A party of natives, returning from a fishing excursion, ferried us 
across the stream that ran along near the place where we descended, 
and w'e directed our steps towards the house of Haa, head-man of 
the village. He received us courteously, ordered a clean mat to be 
spread for us to recline on, and water for us to drink : some of his 
attendants also handed us a large wooden tobacco-pipe, which is 
usually passed round when strangers arrive; this last compliment, 
however, we begged leave to decline. Makoa seated himself by the 
side of the chief, and gave him a brief outline of our tour — our object, 
and the instructions given to the people. In the mean time fish was 
prepared for supper by a fire of sandal wood, which, instead of fill- 
ing the house with disagreeable smoke, perfumed it with a fragrant 
odour. After family worship in the native language, we retired to 
rest. 
“The next morning unveiled to view the extent and beauty of this 
romantic valley. Its entrance from the sea, which was bloclced up with 
sand-hills fifty or sixty feet high, appeared to be a mile or a mile 
and a half wide. The summits of the hills, W'hich bordered the 
valley, seemed six hundred feet above the level of the sea. They 
were nearly perpendicular, yet they were mostly clothed with grass, 
and low straggling shrubs w ere here and there seen amidst the jutting 
rocks. A number of winding paths led up their steep sides, and, in 
several parts, limpid streams flow^ed in beautiful cascades from the 
top to the bottom, forming a considerable stream, which, meandering 
along the valley, found a passage though the sand-hills, and emj3tied 
itself into the sea. The bottom of the valley w'as one continued gar- 
den, cultivated wdth taro, bananas, sugar-cane, and other produc- 
tions of the islands, all growing luxuriantly. Several large ponds 
were also seen in different directions, well stocked with excellent fish. 
A number of small villages, containing from twenty to fifty houses each, 
stood along the foot of the mountains, at unequal distances on each 
side, and extended up the valley till projecting hills obstructed the 
view.’^ 
CoLEBROOK Dale. 
This is a winding valley in the eastern side of Shropshire, on the 
banks of the Severn, between two vast mountains, which divide in 
various romantic forms, and are covered with beautiful banging woods. 
In making a navigable canal to the Severn in 1787, several springs of 
excellent native tar were discovered, which, though now much reduced, 
flowed' so copiously at first, as to afford from seventy to eighty gal- 
lons per day ; so that barrels could hardly be got ready to secure it. 
A spring of brine was also discovered, as strong as most of those 
used for making salt. A work for obtaining' mineral tar from the 
condensed smoke of pit-coal has been erected, and the most exten- 
