Excerpt from Notes on the Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands: With a History of Their Various EruptionsFifteen miles from Kauai is the Island of Niihau, which is different in many respects from other islands of the group. It is twenty miles long by five wide, and consists of two portions, the mountain region, and the plain which meets this on three sides, the latter so low as to be almost invisible from Kauai. The mountain is not much channelled by the rains.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.