16 Volcanic Character of the Island of Hawaii. 
appeared to have flowed round their. base, and filled up the 
interstices occasioned by the separation of the different pieces. 
= of these rugged slabs generally presented a compact, 
oth, glazed, and gently undulated surface, while the other 
appeared rugged and broken, as if torn with violence from the 
viscid mass, to which it hac tenaciously adhered. Probably 
these slabs were raised by the expansive force of heated air, or 
of steam, beneath the sheet of lava.” ‘A number of conical — 
150 to 200 feet high, rose immediately in our rear, 
One 
The company were much distressed for want of water, but 
were relieved by the natives, who appear to have been uni- 
formly kind and hospitable. 3 
After leaving Keavaiti on the 27th, “ Messrs. Thurston, Bish- 
op, and Goodrich travelled over the rugged lava, tillthe moon 
ing obscured by heavy clouds, they were obli- 
ged to halt under a high rock of lava, and wait the dawn of 
day; for, they found it impossible to proceed in the dark, 
without being every moment in danger of stumbling over 
the sharp projections of the rocks, or falling into some of the 
deep and wide fissures that intersected the lava in every di- 
rected. During the whole of the 27th, a most beautiful ¢p, 
threw up a volume of water with considerable noise, 
ing effect, to the height of thirty or forty feet. 
The lava at this place was very ancient, and much heavier 
wa that at Kona. The vesicles were completely filled with 
olivin. 
substance was often the missionary’s pulpit, when he preach- 
