. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. Eruption of Mauna Loa in iS^g, 75 breaking up of the whole surface with intense ebullition.''^'' In 1862 the lava pool had increased to six hundred feet in diameter. Within the central depression there was, a quarter of a mile from the pool, a driblet cone of remarkable form with turrets which Mr. Coan called the Cathedral, and which, two years after, I found a very convenient object in my survey of the crater, as it was visible from the entire outer rim. In October, 1863, Mr.
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. Eruption of Mauna Loa in iS^g, 75 breaking up of the whole surface with intense ebullition.''^'' In 1862 the lava pool had increased to six hundred feet in diameter. Within the central depression there was, a quarter of a mile from the pool, a driblet cone of remarkable form with turrets which Mr. Coan called the Cathedral, and which, two years after, I found a very convenient object in my survey of the crater, as it was visible from the entire outer rim. In October, 1863, Mr. Coan reported an awakening in Halemaumau and indeed all around the crater.'^' We must now look at Mauna Loa. A letter from Prof. R. C. Haskell, of Oahu College, gives the following account of the important eruption of 1859:*^'^ Our party consisted of Prof. E. G, Beck with, Prof. W. D. Alexander and myself, with some students of the college. The eruption broke out on the 23d of January. No earthquake was felt in any part of the island at the time, but dead fish were noticed on the 2ist and a few days afterwards, to the east of Molo- kai, and between Molokai and Oahu. The fish gave no evidence of disease, but seemed to have been par- boiled. At Honolulu, two hundred miles from the eruption, the atmOvSphere was exceedingly thick and haz}^ So much was this the case that it caused con- siderable excitement, before the news of the eruption arrived. Rev. Lorenzo Lyons, of Waimea, states that on Sunday afternoon, January 23, smoke was seen gathering on Mauna Loa. In the evening lava spout- ed up violently near the top of the mountain on the north side, and apparently flowed both towards Hilo and towards the west side of the island. This con- tinued but a few minutes, when at a point consider- ably farther below the top, and farther west, another jet spouted up. Accounts from Hilo say, that on the night of the 23d, it was so light there that fine print could be read without difficulty.
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