. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. HAWAII, 491 flowed from tlie north-east side, and after covering a space of 300 square miles reached the plain of Hilo close to the coast. Three years later another crater was opened six miles north of the central one, discharging a double stream which flowing west half filled up Kiholo Bay, On the east flank of Mauna-Loa has been opened the vast lateral crater of Kilauea, at a height of about 4,000 feet above the sea. Kilauea, abode of the formidable goddess Pelé, is an almost circular chasm about nine miles round, and varying in depth with the
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. HAWAII, 491 flowed from tlie north-east side, and after covering a space of 300 square miles reached the plain of Hilo close to the coast. Three years later another crater was opened six miles north of the central one, discharging a double stream which flowing west half filled up Kiholo Bay, On the east flank of Mauna-Loa has been opened the vast lateral crater of Kilauea, at a height of about 4,000 feet above the sea. Kilauea, abode of the formidable goddess Pelé, is an almost circular chasm about nine miles round, and varying in depth with the movement of the boiling lavas at the bottom. During the present century there has been no direct overflow from Kilauea or from the other furnaces forming its eastern prolongation ; but the underground heat has melted the rocks at a lower depth, and through these the fiery streams have found their way to the surface. In 1868 one of these, after flowing some sixty miles to Fig. 221.âCkateks of Mauna Loa and ^Qfe » f,..'>u:,,i,Zmft,iimi\ifiM,]t,r ..^j »»fe*yv»-'°' â ^t^^AtuA-t^A^V?, . J.«? 155"40 West o'^ breenwich I55"20 6 Miles. the south-west, poured in a flaming cataract over the cliffs into the sea, where it formed a pyramid of lavas which, by later accessions, has been gradually attached to the mainland under the name of Kalae Point, Dana estimates at over fifteen billions of cubic feet the quantity of molten rock discharged on one of these occasions. North-west of Mauna-Loa, which covers a space of nearly 2,000 square miles, the much less elevated Mauna-Hualalai (7,822 feet) is also occasionally active, but all the other cones in Hawaii Island are extinct. One of these is streaked or even covered with snow during a great part of the year, as indicated by its native name, Mouna-Kea, the " White Mountain," It even overtops Mauna-Loa, its highest peak rising, according to the ofiicial surveys, to an altitude o
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