Glimpses of our national parks . d lake of fire. These aredifferent volcanoes, but so huge has grown Mauna Loa, the greaterand the ^^ounger, that Kilauea has been nearly absorbed in his spread-ing flank. Mauna Loa soars 13,675 feet. Its snowy dome shares with MaunaKea, which rises even higher, the summit honors of the Hilo, the principal port of the island of Hawaii, Mauna Loasuggests the back of a leviathan, its body hidden in the mists. Theway up, through forests of ancient mahogany and tangles of gianttree fern, then up many miles of lava slopes, is one of the inspiiingtours in
Glimpses of our national parks . d lake of fire. These aredifferent volcanoes, but so huge has grown Mauna Loa, the greaterand the ^^ounger, that Kilauea has been nearly absorbed in his spread-ing flank. Mauna Loa soars 13,675 feet. Its snowy dome shares with MaunaKea, which rises even higher, the summit honors of the Hilo, the principal port of the island of Hawaii, Mauna Loasuggests the back of a leviathan, its body hidden in the mists. Theway up, through forests of ancient mahogany and tangles of gianttree fern, then up many miles of lava slopes, is one of the inspiiingtours in the mountain world. The summit crater, Mokuaweoweo,three-quarters of a mile long by a quarter-mile wide, is as spectacu-lar in action as that of Kilauea. This enormous volcanic mass has grown of its own output incomparatively a short time. For many decades it has been extraor-dinarily frequent in eruption. Every five or ten years it gets intoaction with violence, sometimes at the summit, oftener of recent OUR NATIONAL PARKS. 51. Photograph by Hawaiian Volcano Observatory , ThE HoUSE OF EVERLASTING FiRE years since the central vent has lengthened, at weakened places onits sides. Few volcanoes have been so regularly and systematicallystudied. KILATJEA The most spectacular exhibit of the Hawaii National Park is thelake of fire in the crater of Kilauea. Kilauea is unusual among volcanoes. It follows few of the popu-lar conceptions. Older than the towering Mauna Loa, its heightis only 4,000 feet. Its lavas have found vents through its flanks, whichthey have broadened and flattened; doubtless its own lavas havehelped Mauna Loas to merge the two mountains into one. It is nolonger explosive like the usual volcano; since 1790, when it destroyeda native army, it has ejected neither rocks nor ashes. Its crater isnot bowl-shaped. From the middle of a broad flat plain, whichreally is what is left of the ancient great crater, drops a pit withvertical sides within which boil its l
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