Title: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
Identifier: acs9793.0002.004.umich.edu
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Subjects: Natural history; Ethnology
Publisher: Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
Contributing Library: University of Michigan
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Michigan

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Kiimifi! and MaHiia Loa. objurgations of an Englisli geologist, it lias been adopted by all geologists treating of the Hawaiian lavas. Anotlier native word, a-a^ supplies another want, for nowhere in the English hmgnage is there a word expressive of the ronghness of the rock mass to whicli this word is applied ( PL XLYll); a third, //>////, meaning nuiss or seaweed, is well applied to the basaltic pumice which accompanies all the Hawaiian onibius/s of lava (Fig. 2). Now the rough, scorite, a-a and liniu, quickly invite vegetation when moisture is present, and do their best to cover the ravages of Pluto with the garments of Ceres, but the snK)oth lava does no such good work, although pleasanter to walk upon; only wdieti its great slabs, smooth or slightl)- wrinkled in the cooling pro- cess, are cracked, can the vegetable get a footing. We will return to the forms and nature of the lava later with such help as flat pictures can give the reader. While rivers of water irrigate and support the vegetation in the lower valleys, the)', in bringing down soil, of couj'se erode the hills and cut the valle\'s deeper; a process Dana has well illustrated from the erosion of one of the Pacific islainls. The rivers of stone build up and often p,^. , om rit pro- teAed by a fringing coral reef, for owing to the frequent su,bmarine eruptions as well as to the flows that rush down the moujitain sides and ;)usli out the shore line, the
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