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of a flattened cylindrical shape; the cartilaginous extremities 
are also gone. It is of a firmer consistence than any of the 
other bones, with a singular irradiation of ossific appearance 
on the outside surface. These two bones are probably the 
leg of the animal. 
There are also lumbar, dorsal, and cervical vertebre. The 
cylindrical portions of those of the first class are fourteen 
inches in diameter, with transyerse processes, in every respect 
like those of quadrupeds. One of them has the introvertebral 
substance completely detached; it is about twelve inches in 
diameter, and perhaps two inches thick in the centre, tapering 
gradually to the extremities ; this specimen is in a perfect state 
of preservation. In the articulation of these bones there is 
considerable analogy to the human vertebrae. 
To judge from the appearance of this portion of the cranium 
which we have seen, if this monster was of the Balena species, 
his length could not be less than two hundred and fifty feet. 
It is stated, that from this place, whence these remains were 
disinterred, a large carnivorous tooth was found, and has been 
carried away. It is also related, that in the year 1799, many 
remains of antediluvian creation were taken up near this same 
place, and shipped to’ Europe.— Boston Journal of Philosophy, 
Aug. -1825. 
VOLCANO IN OWHYHEE. 
Mr. William Ellis, a missionary, in his narrative of a tour 
through the island so well known as the place where Captain 
Cook was murdered, gives the description of a volcano of a 
singular kind, of which we shall select for our readers some of 
the most striking particulars. Mr. Ellis passed over a large 
tract of volcanic country with burning chasms and hills, which 
had the appearance of having been craters. The plain over 
which their way lay, was a vast waste of ancient lava, which 
he thus describes: 
* This tract of lava resembled in appearance an inland sea, 
bounded by distant mountains. Once it had certainly been in 
a fluid state, but appeared as if it had become suddenly petri- 
fied, or turned into a glassy stone, while its agitated billows 
were rolling to and fro. Not only were the large swells and 
hollows distinctly marked, but in many places the surface of 
these billows was covered by a smaller ripple, like that ob- 
served on the surface of the sea at the first springing up of a 
breeze, or the passing currents of air, which produce what the 
sailors call a cat’s-paw. * * E % 
* About two P.M. the crater of Kirauea suddenly burst 
upon our view. We expected to have seen a mountain with ; 
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