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Kilauea and Mautta Loa. 



August 2g, i8j4. F. A. Schaefer. — Although at my previous visits ('6i, '64, '66, '67, '74) 

 I have seen more lakes in Kilauea in action, I have never seen any one lake in a greater state of com- 

 motion than this time. We found the south lake divided into two lakes of similar size by a bank 

 about ior\.y feet high, and the approach to either of them rather more difficult than in years past, on 

 account of recent overflows of lava. Approaching the left-hand lake we had to pass through a great 

 deal of sulphuric smoke which necessarily shortened our stay tliere, and prevented us from going as 

 near to the brink of the lake as we would have wished, but still allowed an impressive glance at 

 the surging and spouting liquid fire. The right-hand lake seen from a bank eighty feet high pre- 



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sented a magnificent spectacle. The bed of the lake was in constant commotion. Along its banks 

 the waves of liquid fire dashed into spray like the waves of the ocean on the rockbound coast, and 



at times the molten lava was thrown high into the air Returning we visited several openings 



which afforded us a view into a living stream of lava flowing from the south lake in an easterly 

 direction, with a rapidity difficult to estimate. A river of liquid fire rushing along with extreme 

 rapidity and with the characteristics of a mountain stream losing itself in the lower bed of the 



crater Thermometer 54°- 68°; once it went to 51°. 



September g, iSj^f. B. F. Dillingham. — Have to report the crater of Mokuaweoweo in the 



same condition topographically as reported by last party and illustrated by J. M. Lydgate The 



burning lake itself was less active than reported by the last party, still the action was very satisfac- 

 tory at both ends of the lake, that nearest the camp the most active, throwing up jets varying in 



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