156 Kilauea and Mauna Laa. 



December 21 , iSSi . An iinniense cave of the pali on the west side took place this day at 9 a.m. 



July 14, /SS2. F. W. Damon. — New Lake and Haleniauniau very active. In the former the 

 lava appears to be slowly rising; it was yesterday within thirty or forty feet of the edge where we stood. 



//</r i-f-, 18S2. Capt. C. E. Button wrote much in the Register which he probably afterwards 

 revised in his published work on these Islands, so it need not be copied here. He vvas also here on 

 September 12th of the same year, and found at Mokuaweoweo "no volcanic action whatever, not 

 even a wisp of steam issuing from any part." "' 



September J2, 1882. W. H. Leutz. — The largest flow of lava that has been here at Kilauea 

 for years took place today at 10:20 o'clock a.:«. The onlj- effect seemingly on the lakes was to lower 

 their level about ten feet in each. 



December 1 , 18S2. Rev. Titus Coan died at Hilo, aged 81 years. 



February 8, /88j. Rev. A. O. Forbes. — Find more action in crater than there was a week ago. 



Professor C. H. Hitchcock ascended Mauna Loa in 1883 and found snow all 

 over the summit: no signs of action."^ 



A/are/i JO, i88j. H. M. Whitney. — Found Kilauea in its usual condition with occasional 

 overflows of the lakes, and the crater filling up gradually. 



August g, jrS8j. Prof. Geo. H. Barton [Professor of Geology in Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology]. — Fine display at South Lake. There were three islands in South Lake. 



September /, /88j. Fred H. Allen. — We saw a sight our landlord said he had never seen; 

 the new lake, after a few moments of great quiet, suddenly boiled in nearly every part, and swallow- 

 ing the black crust glowed fiery red over the entire surface. So hot was it that we had to step back 

 several yards from the spot where people generally sit when looking at the lake, and even then were 

 obliged to screen our faces with our hands. This same evening we noticed one or two large cracks 

 on the surface of the large crater near the lakes that we had not seen the night before. 



October 18, i88j. W. E. Shearburn. — During the time that Mr. J. Bryce and mjself were 

 here we made three descents into the crater, and on each occasion the two lakes were very active. 

 On the night of the 13th, a large cave took place in Halemaumau, and on the night of the 17th there 

 was a most brilliant break up of the new lake. Mr. Br>ce attempted the ascent of Mauna Loa, but 

 was stopped by the mist. 



November /, i88j. Rev. Edw. P. Baker. — Mr. Richardson and party went to the place near 

 the trail from Puna to Kapapala, where, in 1868, the lava appeared on the surface. The lava came 

 out at several points, but the largest space covered by lava is, say, one-eighth of a square mile. 

 The bearing of Kahuku and the land-slide at Kapapala from Kilauea, is to the right (looking from 

 Kilauea) of the direction of the crack and of the lava that came to the surface in 1868 from Kilauea. 

 [On the 2nd Mr. Baker went to the south side of Halemaumau and threw an iron wire (a lava frag- 

 ment at the end) into the boiling lava. The boiling process continually pulled the wire down, and 

 down, for about three minutes, when the wire was burned off. A south wind compelled Mr. Baker 

 to go round to the south side of Halemaumau.] 



March g, 1884. C. H. Dickey. — We found a new little crater on the route between Hale- 

 maumau and the New Lake. The guide says that it began to form last Tuesday, March 3rd. We 

 visited it as we went to Halemaumau and it looked precisely like the furnace of a blacksmith's forge 



"H'nitcd States Geological Report, iv, p. 139. 



"'The page containing notes of this, as well as of his visit to Kilauea, has been torn out of the register, so that 

 I was not aware of the visit of this distinguished geologist until I saw, long after this account was written, his note 

 in the register complaining of the outrage. I understood tliat Professor Hitchcock was preparing for the press a 

 work on the geology of the Hawaiian group, and for that reason I have omitted reference to his valuable papers on 

 the subject in tlie publications of the American Geological Society and elsewhere. 



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