. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 160° West br b'-eenwicln Depths Oto 1,000 Fathoms. Fathoms and upwards. table zone. The crater, or rather group of craters, collectively named the Mokua- veoveo, open on the very summit of the mountain, so as to form a symmetrical cavity disposed in the direction from north to south. In the centre lies the vast primitive crater, which has a mean diameter of about 2,200 yards and a depth of over 1,000 feet. Mounds of scoriae, some in ignition, some extinct, rise from the bottom of this pit, north and south of which two semicircular terraces over 400 fe
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 160° West br b'-eenwicln Depths Oto 1,000 Fathoms. Fathoms and upwards. table zone. The crater, or rather group of craters, collectively named the Mokua- veoveo, open on the very summit of the mountain, so as to form a symmetrical cavity disposed in the direction from north to south. In the centre lies the vast primitive crater, which has a mean diameter of about 2,200 yards and a depth of over 1,000 feet. Mounds of scoriae, some in ignition, some extinct, rise from the bottom of this pit, north and south of which two semicircular terraces over 400 feet high represent two halves of a crater inscribed, so to say, on the periphery of the central opening. Vast lava streains have been discharged from the very rim of Mauna-Loa, as in 1880, when about 2,200,000,000 cubic feet of burning matter flowed down the slopes of the mountain. But the molten lavas mostly escape from openings far below the upper cone. Thus in 1855 such a stream over-
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