Neiv Eruption on Manna Loa. 



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December i, iSg2. Peter Lee. — The crater of Mokuaweoweo again active after a quiet rest of 

 nearly six years, since February, 1887. The fire appeared last night between ten and eleven o'clock, 

 quickly rising from the summit of Mauna L,oa, without any earthquakes or previous signs of dis- 

 turbance, and continued all night. This morning great columns of smoke are belching forth. [The 

 fire only lasted three days.] The crater of Kilauea continues in its usual activity not seeming in 

 the least affected by the eruption on Mauna I^oa. 



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FIG. 114. SKETCH PI.AN OF THE L.\KES. BISHOP. 



/?i/v ig, iSgj. W. R. Castle. — The lake named "Thurston Lake" has built up for itself a 

 wall about thirty feet high ; an even slope gives it the appearance of a cone It filled and over- 

 flowed Sunday the 9th, falling about fifteen feet. Every outburst of fountain or surface swelling is 

 accompanied by volumes of sulphurous vapor. As it rises from the surface it is red-hot, almost at 

 once turning blue."^ It is far more pungent than the vapor from sulphur banks near house. 



March 26, iSg^. W. R. Castle. — March 21, in the afternoon, between half-past one and 



two the entire surface of the lake appeared from the hotel to be in a condition of intense agitation, 



spouting and boiling with lava flowing over the side in several places. Suddenly on the north side 



' W 'as not t/ic red color borroiocd from the crack or surface ? 



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