Lydgate''s Suivcy of Moknaiveoweo. 



123 



and in some places the openings are large enough to bathe in. We reached the horses, ate some 

 lunch, and started down at 2 p.m., well paid for our great exertion. 



September 2y , iSj^. T. Spencer.^Crater active, flowing all night toward the Volcano House. 



January //, 18J4. J. E. Chamberlain. — Visited the crater fourteen jears ago. The crater 

 has filled up one-half. The two craters, 1859 and 1S74, are almost totally unlike. 



March 24, 18J4. L. M. C. — The south lake has been gradually filling up until last night, 

 when it overflowed. At eight o'clock the whole of the edge of the lake facing this house was alight 

 with the flowing lava. A sudden change in the w-eather has accompanied this outbreak — cold wind 

 without rain ; thermometer 42°. 



June g, iSj^. Frank Thompson. — The lava has been flowing from the open lake all day. 



t.l I I I M 1 3 



^c/iie. I0OO n -.^ncK 

 Fig. 73. SURVEY OF mokitaweoweo bv j. m. lvdgate. 



/une 24, iSj^. John M. Lydgate. — The plan of the crater of Mokuaweoweo [Fig. 73] is from 

 actual survey by triangulation. A base of 1876 feet was measured on the eastern side and from this, 

 using a seven inch Queen transit, some twenty points were fixed indicative of the shape, topography, 

 etc., of the crater. Its greatest length including the basin at the north end is 17,000 feet, or about, 

 3.2 miles; excluding this it is 15,000 feet; its greatest breadth is 8600 feet or about 1.7 miles; its 

 greatest depth 1050 feet. The floor, however, is continually rising owing to repeated overflows, and 

 the lake is about 500 feet in diameter, and at the time of our visit was quite active, more so than I 

 have ever seen Kilauea. 



fuly <?, iSj^. D. H. Hitchcock. — \'olcano is very active. Crater filling up with new lava, 

 but evidently sinking more and more as a whole. Halemauniau half the height of the lower or 

 southern bank. Mokuaweoweo brilliant last evening. 



July 10, iSy^. G. [Oilman] — At 7.30 this evening, two sharp, quick shocks of earthquake 

 were felt here, — an interval of about three minutes between them. The new flow begun last night 

 seems to be gaining, a large portion of the central basin being alight with the flowing lava. 



[501] 



