Fires Co))ic and (io in Halcniauniau. 



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This lake finally broke through its encircling walls and followed the rest of the 

 flow down the hill. The lava where the flow crossed the road shows many very bril- 

 liant particles of olivine, and at the time of eruption unusual quantities of sulphur 

 were noticed by many visitors. Kilauea, which had been slumbering, again roused into 

 action about the time that this Mauna Loa eruption ceased. We take up the Volcano 

 House Register again. 



January 2j, igoj. Rev. E. W. Thwing. — Tbe lake was more active, and steadily rising. 



April 12, 190J. Immanuel Friedlauder found little fire. 



^[ay 12, igoy. Demosthenes Lj'curgus. — After some days quietness in the crater, fires re- 

 turned last night ; cone on north side of pit quite busy, spurting every few minutes to a height 

 of fifty to sixty feet. A stream of lava from above flowed almost around the whole floor of the pit. 

 May 28 : active and the "hole" that sank some weeks ago is rapidly filling up. 



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FIG. 134. L.\KE, MAY 24, igoS. 



FIG. 135. LAKE, JUNE 6, 1908. 



July 10. Lycurgus. — A lake of fire seventy-five feet in diameter. 



July 25. Lycurgus. — Fire returned, but in small quantity. 



November 20 . Lycurgus. — The volcano became active again after a quietness of seven months. 

 The whole pit was lighted up. The next day those who went down found only a little cone on the 

 Volcano House side of the pit, with flames of fire, but no lava flows or fountains. In the evening 

 the fires disappeared again. 



December 7, igoj. W. A. Wall, Surveyor. — Found the pit 450 feet deep to a contraction 

 only 200 feet in diameter, and this, a little lower down, showed fire about 40 feet across. 



December 16, igoj. W. B. Henshall. — Quite active. 



May 2^, igoS. L,. A. Thurston. — I estimate the pit to be 200 feet in depth, and the lake 

 800X400 feet in the form [shown in diagram, Fig. 134] with an island in the middle of the larger 

 end. There is more activity than at any time since the breakdown, March ii, 1894. 



Ju?ie 6, igo8. C. J. Biart made a sketch of the lake at 8 o'clock p.m. (shown in Fig. 135). 



June 21 , igo8. L,. A. Thurston. — The depth of the pit is about the same as on May 24tli 

 last, but the size of the lake has increased about fifty per cent. The diagram by C. J. Biart fairly 

 represents it. [587] 



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