The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-05-03

out in springs along it, western and northwestern
coast which we have already characterized as Pc
culiarly fertile and attractive. The western and
eastern coasts are merely flats Of elevated coral
reef. \ square of five miles either way would
include tie whole loch, but. with tie innumera-
Die indentations in the coast line of the peninsu-
La and islands that divide it, 1t would hardly
seem that forty miles was much too high az esti-
mate for the amount of shore. Everywhere
around the edges are ancient fsh-ponds, most Of
them made by walliug of little bays or bights by
heavy stone walls, giving n fine example of the
industry of the liza yaiians Of old, who carried
the stones Tor these csuseways on their shoulders,
buildin. for their chrfs miles on miles of solid
pier. The FISH ponds are, we may say, the life of
the natives of Honolulu, the source Of supply OF
the noisy fish market Of saturday afternoon that
is so characteristicaly Hawaiian
West Loeb, n the westerly division may
DC termed, is brood and Spacious ut its head,
(ionouliuli), and leep and winding in its en-
trance which las l good width. The shores
are particularly gbruPt. Under the banks
swarm myriads Of marine living creatures, huge
annelidae, eight ana ten feet long, muIlet play
ing here and there, occasionally sharks, turtle,
and flying fish bang seen. The long narrow
peninsula of Waiuo separates this from the
Middle Loeb. In many Of the hooks in all the
Iochs are large banks of oyster shells, one va
riety being bright mother-ofPearl. 1t is a fact
that pearls were formerly often found in one varie-
" Of oyster, but have now totally disappeared.
At the head of Middle Loeb is Eva or
Waiawa village. The.exploer can, if he feel so
disposed, draw his light boat over the miniature
bar of Waiawa river, and then float deliciously
up for nearly half a mile, between nearly ap-
preaching banks dropping with wealth of tropi-
cal foliage, hau, mango, ~lauhala, coeoanut, all
either resonant with noisy miners ian introduced
bird), or rustling with the sharp quick flight of
turtle doves, who seem to have abandoned Homo
lulu for this delightful retreat.
East Loeb again, is divided from Middle Loeb
by a broad peninsula, quite fertile and well
watcred. All along the head of this loeh are
settled valleys. In the centre is an island of
some 300 acres, covered with n layer of rich
alluvium, chow came it thereY the banks
being coral bluffs ten to twenty feet in height.
The vegetation on this island shows what the
main land was before cattle trayersed its length
and breadth.
Southeast Loeb is a branch of East Loeb, weird
and strange in its solitude, pushing its branches
into the embouchures of the ravines that de-
scend from the outside of Salt Lake crater, each
with it's fish pond, rapidly filling up with mud.
We have thrown together a few characteristic
features of the much talked of locality such
in fact as would present themselves to the casual
explorer. We understand that the survey now
going on is a part of the typographical survey
of the islands, and is founded on the triangula-
ton for the main work. OF course it will be
some time in completion any way in attaining
a stage of progress fit for publication, modelled
as it is after the U. s. Coast Survey. The
above sketch therefore may be ofrdhterest to the
general reader.