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Kilauea and Marina Loa. 



Kapapala, shows well the exceedingly rough nature of the surface. The outlook from the plateau 

 (Fig. 130) gives some idea of the vast western wall and its nearly perpendicular surface, while the 

 nearer view (Fig 131) of the eastern wall shows the layers and the talus, and also the fresh lava 

 flows on the floor. The descent can be seen to be far more difficult than that into Kilauea. One can 

 easily imagine, while looking at these pictures, the disgust of the botanist Douglas, who saw noth- 

 ing worthy the attention of a naturalist ! 



September 16, 190^. L,. A. Thurston. — Little sulphur in smoke : no noise [in Kilauea]. 



Deeemberi^, igo^. Clifton H. Tracy. — The volcano is more active than for three months, 

 athough the fire is still confined to two cones in the southwest. 



/amiary 22, igo6. A. L,oebenstein measured the depth of the pit at 576.9 feet. 



December 2 . rgo6. E. D. Baldwin. — Fire visible in pit after nearly a year of inactivity. 



FIG. 130. WESTERN WALL FROM I'L.\TKAll. W. T. POPE. 



fauna ry 9, /goy. Ertiptioii of Mauna Loa. After a few slight earthquakes 



that were felt, not all over Hawaii, bttt in a few places onl}^, abotit midnight on the 



ninth of Janttary a bright light appeared on the summit of Matma Loa, as it seemed 



at first, and it was some time before the true locality of the otttbreak was determined. 



This proved to be far below the stimmit on the southern slope of the mountain, in the 



Kahtikti region, already the seat of the eruptions of 1867 and 1887. As ma}' be seen 



on the map, its source was higher tip than either of these flows, and about half way 



down it divided into two nearly eqtial streams with a small and rather unimportant 



one between these and nearer the westerly one. Man}' visited this eruption, bttt there 



was little to relate differing from its predecessors. One or two points, liowever, appear 



in the summary given"^ that may well be reproduced here: — 



vSo violent was the activity, and so liquid the flow of pahoehoe lava that the stream reached 

 and crossed the Government road on the Kona side of the lava flow of 1887 in two days, advancing 

 in places at the rate of seven miles an hour, destroying the telephone lines and stopping traffic for a 



'^'Thrum's Annual, 1898, p. 131. [584] 



