Floiv Ends. 



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Two streams flowed down the mountain, one toward Kan — this lasted onlj- ten 

 days — while the other and larger ran toward Hilo in the track of so many others, finally 

 ceasing July 23d. Then came severe earthquakes, felt in various parts of the island 

 during that day, but no harm was done ; neither did the flow of three weeks do any 

 harm as it passed through a region already blasted by previous streams of compara- 

 tivel}^ recent occurrence. 



Fig. 124. A SOURCE of eruption, iS 



HITCHCOCK. 



January i^^iSgS. Frank Godfrey. — Not a sign of life [Kilauea] . 



March 26, i8g8. L. A. Thurston estimates the pit as 800 feet deep and 150 feet in diameter 

 at the bottom. He also notes increased heat in the crack parallel with and four hundred feet dis- 

 tant from the north wall. "It is sizzling hot a foot back from the edge and shows a cherry-red 

 about twenty feet down. This is the first fire seen in the crater since June 24, 1897." 



March 2, igoo. L. A. Thurston. — There was a breakdown filling the "bottomless pit," 

 and some fire. [577J 



