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CONTENTS

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