CHAPTER I

GENERAL INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON SOME OF THE LEADING PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE ISLAND

Its remarkable shape, 1.—Its building up, 2.—Study of its profile, 3.—Mount Seatura.—Regions of acid andesites.—Basaltic tablelands.—Great ridge-mountains, 5.—Boundary of the regions of basic and acid rocks, 6.—Its primary features, the dacitic peak, the basaltic plateau, and the ridge-mountain

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