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Kilauea and Mauna Loa. 



Fcbniaiy 2j-2j, iSgi . G. Creswell Delamaiii and W. T. Brighain. — Brunner, bj' levels from 

 Hilo, found the elevation of the Hotel verandah 3971.64. 



March 6, rSgr. J. H. Maby of the Volcano House. — At 9:30 p.m. one slight earthquake . 

 At the time of shaking the cones of Halemauniau settled down. From February loth to March 6th 

 all the fires in the crater were very active and flows of lava were plainly seen over the floor of the 

 crater from the house. At 9:10 p.m. on the 7th a slight shake was felt at the house. On the morn- 

 ing of the Stli on looking over the crater we saw that the cones of Halemauniau, the Dana Lake 

 and Maby Lake had sunk out of sight. The cones of Halemauniau loomed up above the bed of the 



Fig. 106. REGION .\BOUT HALEMAUM.\U IN 1890. 



crater some two hundred or more feet before the earthquake of March 6th. Five years to a day since 

 the last drop out in 1886. 



March aj, iSgi. W. W. Brunner. — Survey of Volcano road [from Hilo] finished. No fire 

 in the crater. 



March /,S\ iSgi. Rev. E. P. Baker. — Went round the Halemauniau chasm : the brink is a 

 sheer precipice, but the descent becomes tuunel-shaped a third or half the way down. It is smoking 

 at the bottom. 



April ^^ iSgr. Having seen the cone in the midst of the Haleraatimati region 

 a short time before its disappearance, I went to Kilanea hoping the empty pit might 

 give some cine to the how or where of the vanished mass. It was no light bit of crust, 

 that could be melted by the molten lava in a few moments, btit a hill of crust, spatters 

 and hardened lava of various form towering at least two hundred feet above the brink 



of the lake of molten lava which it nearly filled with its mass two thousaiid feet in 



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