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After the breakdown of September 4tli, the lava soon returned to Halemannian, 

 and the Register resumes the notes : — 



December 12, igoS. E. D. Baldwin. — Lava returned September 7th, and in two hours was 

 within 150 feet of the spot whence it fell September 4th. According to the accounts the lake rose 

 and fell spasmodically after the 7th, and during some time in October had reached a place one hun- 

 dred feet below its elevation on the 4th, only to fall again as evidenced by the present black ledge 

 some forty-five feet higher than the level of the lava as it now stands. 



During November and December the lake has as- 

 sumed again its steady filling action, and at this date [Dec. 

 21, 1908] is 235 feet below the point of observation. Two 

 nights ago the lake was nearly 250 feet deep. . . . The small 

 rim of the lake is constantly being built up, and many 

 small flows pour over the sides ; last evening within three 

 hours there were some eight overflows, many reaching the 

 walls of the pit. There were three other centres of action 

 at the rim of the lake where the continuous splashes of the 

 fountains have formed spatter cones ; one at the south- 

 west corner, another at the north side, and the third, a 

 heavy moving fountain, at the east corner- • • • Old Faithful 

 was still in its old position, but only bubbling up every 

 few minutes. 



Mr. Baldwin also speaks of "traveling foun- 

 tains" on July 26th, when Old Faithful started 

 traveling in a westerly direction, followed quickly 

 by another great foitntain, until there were at one 

 time fotir or five of these curious fountains. 

 Some of these struck the shore under the observa- 

 tion point with great fury, splashing over the 

 bank. I shall describe these more fully when 

 I come to my own visit. 



April 7, igog. Professor T. A. Jaggar, Jr., 

 records temperature of steam cracks. As his visit 

 to these Islands was to ascertain the desirability of establishing such an observatory 

 as the author has repeatedly advocated, he will doubtless publish his report, which 

 will be more interesting than any such brief quotations of his recorded or spoken 

 results. Soon after his visit, Dr. Tempest Anderson arrived at Kilauea, and after 

 a brief visit joined the author in a hurried trip to the crater of Haleakala on Maui, 

 where we camped in the crater two thousand feet below the rim, which rises some ten 

 thousand feet above the sea. In the bottom are many cinder cones, some a thousand 



feet high, and of beautiful regularity ; the sides often dotted with the beautiful "Silver- 



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 B. 

 C. 

 D. 

 E- 

 F. 



Observation point 279 ft. below V. H. floor. 

 Level of lava September 4, 1908. 

 Black ledge formed in October, 1908. 

 Level July 26, 1908. 

 Level October 7, 1909. 

 Level December 21, 1908. 



Fig. 142, SECTION oP pit. Baldwin. 



