8 ' Volcanic Character of the Island of Hawaii. 
gazed with admiration on its raging fires, and witnessed with 
no ordinary feelings of awe, the varied and sublime phenome- 
na of volcanic action, in all its imposing magnificence and ter- 
rifie ur.’ 
The Hawaiians, we are assured, like other barbarous na- 
propitious deity’’—* in the sighing of the breeze, the gloom 
of the ni the boding eclipse, the meteor’s glance, the light- 
of various thicknesses 7 a 
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ed, and formed the side walls, whi approximated tieahes 
rose, until uniting at the top, they became a solid arch, enclo- 
inued 
sing a stream of lava, which contin to flow on towards the 
= : - . A asi rture, 
passed on, m a direction nearly parallel with the surface, 
sometimes along a spacious arched way, not less than twenty- 
five feet high, and twenty wide ; at other times bya passage so 
DAIrOwS rat they could with difficulty press through, till they 
ad proceeded about 1200 feet. Here their progress was ar. 
wer Aas i - of gem x considerable extent and depth 
salt as that found in llows of ithi 
yards of the sea. This latt irs eae ae 
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mg at the water, they simultaneously pl ged i i 
: e ' plun m, extendir 
their torches with one hand, and swimming abont with the ale 
