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Waimea River Canyon as viewed from Menehune Ditch Marker Site
Photographer: Andrew Ruppenstein
Taken: July 25, 2008
Caption: Waimea River Canyon as viewed from Menehune Ditch Marker Site
Additional Description: "...our attention was arrested by an object that greatly excited our admiration, and at once put an end to all conjecture on the means to which the natives resorted for the watering of their plantations. A lofty perpendicular cliff now presented itself, which, by rising immediately from the river, would effectually have stopped our further progress into the country, had it not been for an exceedingly well constructed wall of stones and clay about twenty-four feet high, raised from the bottom by the side of the cliff, which not only served as a pass into the country, but also as an aqueduct, to convey the water brought thither by great labour from a considerable distance; the place where the river descends from the mountains affording the planters an abundant stream, for the purpose to which it is so advantageously applied. This wall, which did no less credit to the mind of the projector than to the skill of the builder...", Captain George Vancouver (early 1790s)
Submitted: January 9, 2010, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p92156
File Size: 0.688 Megabytes

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