. Riches and marvels of Hawaii; a charming description of her unique history, strange people, exquisite climate, wondrous volcanoes, luxurious productions, beautiful cities, corrupt monarchy, revolution, provisional government and annexation. elated by Thrum, in apamphlet on The Suspended Activity of Kilauea, Dis-tant rumbling noises were heard, accompanied by a seriesof earthquakes, forty-three in number. With the fourthshock, which was quite severe, the brilliancy of New Lakedisappeared, and towards 3 A. M. the fires in Halemaumaudisappeared also, leaving the whole crater in th
. Riches and marvels of Hawaii; a charming description of her unique history, strange people, exquisite climate, wondrous volcanoes, luxurious productions, beautiful cities, corrupt monarchy, revolution, provisional government and annexation. elated by Thrum, in apamphlet on The Suspended Activity of Kilauea, Dis-tant rumbling noises were heard, accompanied by a seriesof earthquakes, forty-three in number. With the fourthshock, which was quite severe, the brilliancy of New Lakedisappeared, and towards 3 A. M. the fires in Halemaumaudisappeared also, leaving the whole crater in the dawn the shocks and noises ceased, and revealedthe changes which Kilauea had undergone in the the high cliffs surrounding Halemaumau and NewLake, which had become a prominent feature in the crater,had vanished entirely, and the molten lava of both lakeshad disappeared by some subterranean passage from thebottom of Halemaumau. There was no material changein the sunken portion of the crater except a continualfalling in of rocks and debris from its banks, as thecontraction from its former intense heat loosened theircompactness and sent them hurling some 200 or 300 feetbelow, giving forth at times a boom as of distant thunder,. THE GREAT CRATER OF KILAUEA.—On the island of Hawaii is thelargest active volcano in the world. The crater of Kilauea is on the slopes olMauna Loa, four thousand feet above the level of the sea. It is nine miles incircumference, with a depth, at present, of five hundred feet. VOLCANOES AND LAVA FLOWS. 217 followed by clouds of cinders and ashes shooting up intothe air 100 to 300 feet, proportionate, doubtless, to the sizeof the newly fallen mass. This remarkable recession of the liquid lava in Hale-maumau presented a vivid illustration of the dying throesof exhausted volcanoes. The Rev. Mr. Baker, probablythe most adventuresome explorer of Hawaiian volcanoes,actually descended into that crumbling pit to a point withinwhat he judged to be fifty
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