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Kilajiea and Manna Loa. 



I have endeavored to cull what I believe to be authentic. The period we are now 

 considering is covered as follows ( I have quoted the record as written ; not merely 

 as I think it should have been written): 



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Between ii and 12 o'clock last night Mokuaweoweo started active again. 



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The wind has been from the southward, and the whole day a dense body of smoke has been passing 

 over Kilauea and across Puna off to sea. Weather haz}- and top of the mountain seldom visible. 

 Kilauea quite active, but no lava flowing. 



Jaiiuarv jr , iSjj. Miss Isabella L. Bird. — There was considerable activity, eleven fountains 

 of fire and waves of fire perpetually breaking into fiery spray. 



March 2,i87^. C. H. Wil- 

 Hams. — The lake is at present 

 divided into about two equal 

 parts by a wall of lava. [Plate 

 XLIV, lower view.] 



March 13, 18 jj. J.N. Gil- 

 man. — The south lake is di- 

 vided by a partition which forms 

 two lakes. 



March 22, iSjj. Godfrey 

 Brown. — South lake was very 

 active, the jets of lava reaching 

 to about fifty feet of the top of 

 the bank. 



June 5, iSjj. W. L. Green. 

 — The surface of the molten lake 

 appearing to be fifty or sixtj' feet 

 below the edge. • . • The level of 

 the molten lava in the lake is 

 some two or three hundred feet 

 above the general level of the 

 depression (a mile or so long), 

 over which you walk to the lake. 

 Mauna L/oa is now active. 



July 2, iSjj. vS. W. Pogue. 

 — Very little action. 



July ^, i8jj. IvUther Sev- 

 erance . — Crater active; lakes 

 full to the brim. [See Fig. 71, which seems to represent this phase of Halemaumau (South L,ake). 

 Unfortunately the present owner of the photographic negative cannot assure me of its date.] 



July 8, i8jj. G. Jones. — At 9 A.M. the lava with which the south lake has been filled for 

 some time broke through on the eastern slope facing the Volcano House, and has been running 

 towards and into the basin [central depression of 1868]. On the 12th the south lake was very active 

 and still full, although the new flow of over half a mile in width still continued. The crater on the 

 summit [Mokuaweoweo] was also active. 



July 28, iSyj. H. Birgham found both lakes and the cones tolerably active, and saw the 

 brook of lava flowing down the side of the south lake. 



Aug^usi II, i8jj. Dr. O. B. Adams. — The outflow from the south lake still flows and is visible 

 through a large crack. It appears to be about twenty feet wide and flows like a mountain torrent. 



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FIG. 70. SURVEY OF KHAUEA BY J. M. LYDGATE. 



