. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . twenty-five eruptions followed^ one of which, after send-ing out its stream of lava for a mile, was suddenlychecked, the molten river disappeared into theearth, and that seemed to be the last of it. Butfour days later another shock shook the island toevery extremity, and the lava stream burst throughthe earth in the forest of northeastern Puna, rush-ing down to the sea with terrific power, over-whelming many people and destroying the countryas far as it reached. In the Puna district are yetto be seen strang
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . twenty-five eruptions followed^ one of which, after send-ing out its stream of lava for a mile, was suddenlychecked, the molten river disappeared into theearth, and that seemed to be the last of it. Butfour days later another shock shook the island toevery extremity, and the lava stream burst throughthe earth in the forest of northeastern Puna, rush-ing down to the sea with terrific power, over-whelming many people and destroying the countryas far as it reached. In the Puna district are yetto be seen strange reminders of the overflows inthe shape of lava-tree forests. The molten lavahaving covered the trees, often to a height oftwenty feet, congealed before the encased woodburned, and now stands hollow skeletons of thegreenwood hundreds of years old. In 1859 an immense flow rushed down betweenMauna Kea and Hualalai, reaching the sea atWainanalii, a distance of thirty-three miles, ineight days. The worst eruption of which there iswritten record took place in 1868. This time. THE ISLAND BUILDER. 223 severe earthquakes rocked the whole island like acradle^ and the southeast coast of Puna sankseveral feet. A fountain of lava was thrownupward a thousand feet^ which abruptly collapsed,and the mountain dome appeared clear against thesky. Five days later, on April 2d, a molten riverburst through a fissure in the earth just south ofHilo with a terrific force and volume. It hadtravelled over twenty miles underground beforefinding this vent, and now four huge fountainsseethed and tossed hissing lava and rocks tons inweight high into the air. From this a furiousstream of red lava — a river of fire from two toeight hundred feet in width and twenty feetdeep — swept down to the sea at a rate of fromfifteen to twenty miles an hour. Everything inits pathway was destroyed, and one of the fairestpastoral regions of the island transformed into atract of barren earth. The entire southeasterncoast
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