. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 64 bulletin: museum of compakative zoology. by two miles wide, leaving the basin studded islets and rocks (Plates 83, 84) such as I have already mentioned. These islands have usually vertical faces; many of them are conical, dome- shaped, or mushroom-shaped, like the islands and islets inside of the interior basin. A similar process has been going on off the northern point of Fulanga, south of Quoin Hill, where the conical and dome- shaped and mushroom-shaped islands and islets and rocks are seen to p
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 64 bulletin: museum of compakative zoology. by two miles wide, leaving the basin studded islets and rocks (Plates 83, 84) such as I have already mentioned. These islands have usually vertical faces; many of them are conical, dome- shaped, or mushroom-shaped, like the islands and islets inside of the interior basin. A similar process has been going on off the northern point of Fulanga, south of Quoin Hill, where the conical and dome- shaped and mushroom-shaped islands and islets and rocks are seen to pass gradually from conical or dome-shaped bluffs along the shoi-e line into the negro-heads of the outer reef flat off that point. This process of disintegration must have been similar in every i-espect to that which has formed the sounds in the Bermudas, eating small bays into the faces of bluffs inland, these becoming circular with time, vrith only a narrow opening, and finally leaving merely a narrow ridge or parts of ridges surrounding a central basin resembling an FCLANGA SOUTH OF QCOIX HILL. If the process which has been shaping Fulanga had been goirg on longer the result would have been a low ridge on the southwestern face of an elliptical outer reef flat, with an enclosed lagoon full of islets or rocks or heads, and here and there perhaps an island or islet indicating the former existence of the elevated coralliferous limestone ridge; there being a passage into the lagoon where it now exists, the lagoon as en- larged including the true lagoon and the " Sound " basin, — a condition of things very similar to that found on Oneata, Xgele Levu, Yangasa, Xanuku, and on Yanua Mbalavu. On the faces of the islands and islets forming the eastern ridge of the basin of Fulanga rise vertical cliffs deeply undercut and weathered. The reef flats are full of negro-heads, some of which are of considerable size. The reef flats are everywhere covered with extensive str
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