. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. Ancient Walls of Kilauea, 49 barometric iiieasiireiiiciits at various points, making wliat seems to be Waldroll's Lcdgx* six Irimdred feet above the boiling surface of lava, and its height above tlic sea 4100 feet. He first notices the outer walls of the ancienl crater, calls tlie terraces around the pres- ent crater vast platforms, and makes the highest point of these ancient walls (now nineh interrnpted) 5054 feet. In all the modern sirrveys of the crater these "ancient
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. Ancient Walls of Kilauea, 49 barometric iiieasiireiiiciits at various points, making wliat seems to be Waldroll's Lcdgx* six Irimdred feet above the boiling surface of lava, and its height above tlic sea 4100 feet. He first notices the outer walls of the ancienl crater, calls tlie terraces around the pres- ent crater vast platforms, and makes the highest point of these ancient walls (now nineh interrnpted) 5054 feet. In all the modern sirrveys of the crater these "ancient walls" have been negleAed, althongli the visitors often, refer to them, as Ellis saw on one of them on the northeast of Kilanea tlie ruins of the heiaii dcdicjited to. Pele. The Count described six lakes of boiling lava, fonr of which were only three or fonr feet above the general floor, the fifth forty feel, and the last one hnnilred and fifty; this he calls liau man ninti^ which covered nearly a niilHon sqnare feet, ivhilc the others he rates at twelve thousand scpiare feet each. His statement that "the lava sank and rose in all the lakes simnltaneonsly" is, considering the difference in level, very improbable, and in cases where tliere have been several lakes on nearly 1839 the same level no sncli phetiomemm, has been ,reported. Captain John vSliepherd was at tlie crater Septend;)cr 16, i<S39. On his way to the great lake he passed several small lakes and cones, the latter twenty to thirty feet high, from whence issned vapors and lava with lond detonations. He speaks of a lake toward the casl side of the crater a mile long, and half as wide, within a wall a hundred MEMOIKS B. p. B. SlDSKt'M, Vol,, n. No. .f.^^l. L4'27j. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bernice Paua
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