Hawaii — page 107: what you’re looking at

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98 SOME OTHER fSLaaee po rove passage of one-third mile in width connects the batt ’ with the ocean. The outer end of the passage through © the reef is at present obstructed by a sand bar. which can easily be removed by dredging in the same way that the entrance to Honolulu Harbor was dredged a few years ; ago. The map of Pearl Harbor thus resembles an oval — fan, with the handle on the longer side. The oval lake — is crossed from north to south by two low peninsulas and © an island which divides it into four locks containing areas in all of about eight square miles: of water. “The northern or inland portions of these areas are ~ shoal, owing to the wash of the uplands. Of the re- mainder about three square miles are from five to ten fathoms deep, admitting the largest ships. An equal area is from two to four fathoms. At several points the water is from four to seven fathoms deep close alongside ~ of the low coral bluffs. Much of the deep water is in © channels between such bluffs, from one-third to one mile ~ wide.” About Pearl River harbor are numbers of localities | where several hundred of acres of level land can be se-_ cured close to deep water, and which would be most suit- able for a naval station. | | The climate is simply perfect, and the mild trade winds | sweep across the country. The summer temperature is — from 70 to 80 degrees, and the winter from 56 to 78 de- grees. There is scarcely any rain, except when there is a. gale from the south; and a great storm endangering ships | in the harbor is never known. Owing to the absence of | 5 humidity, malaria is an unknown quantity. + : 1: ‘co © ‘ : . ‘ rms $ ave 4% < vee Fy ; * » ‘* P Lae 2), ae PL ine rece " + ‘ bf ‘. : ~ ~ 3 tee %