Volcanic Character ef the Island of Hawaii. a 
On my arriyal at these islands, [landed at Oahu, and spent 
awo or three months there. Re rocks that I examined there 
answers every purpose wis ee brown "The soil is the 
same on Tuuai, (Atooi.) From what I have seen and hear 
of all the aot there is no doubt, in my mind, that they 
are all volcanic. 
The summer after my arrival, I spent about ten weeks in 
making a tour of this Island, in company with several oth- 
er members of the Mission family. A journal of that tour 
wil probably be published in America. The Island of Ha- 
ii, from the north point to the southern, including all the 
et side of the Island, is little else than one entire mass or 
“sheet of lava, riven has run down from the mountains at 
“diflerent pe riods. “Some of the currents of lava are se re- 
cent, that aay is no vegetation to be seen upon them ; but 
others are of a much more ancient date, so that bushes and 
even trees have sprung up among the beds of lava. _ Most of 
the land on the western side of the Island, four or five miles 
from the shore is pci probably not far from 3000 feet above _ 
the level of the s In several places, the lava, as it ran 
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down from. fell. 
feet in height ; : “sometimes presenting the form of stalactites, 
and at others of stalagmites, and sometimes an entire sheet, 
like the falling of water over a mill dam, except that the ines 
was more Visci 
e most remarkable place is cack or ten miles to the 
south of Kearakekua, which place is to the southward of the 
middle of the Island. There are four high mountains in the 
Island, one back eh dhpnehae, and another back of ee: 
upwards of 7000 feet high, called Hualulae : the two others 
are vastly higher, namely : Mouna Kea, to the nePiecat 
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