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region of the island. (Figure 14.) This fact is explicable on the 

 laccolithic hypothesis for the origin of Kilauea, since the roof of such 

 a body must evidently be in danger of Assuring and of moderate 

 dislocation. 



Figure 14. Redraft of the Government MS. map (1907) of part of south- 

 ern Hawaii, showing fault-scarps and "earthquake" fissures. The long; soarp 

 in the south ranges up to 500 meters in height. Contour interval, 200 feet. 



6. An obvious test of the hypothesis consists in the search for direct 

 evidences of uplift in the laccolithic area. No notices of strongly ele- 

 vated shore-lines in this region have been published. In view of the 

 considerable number of good observers who have traversed this part of 



