-30 Volcanic Character of the Island of Hawaii. 
ed, had retained all those forms, which a torrent of lava, fal- 
ling several hundred feet, might be expected to produce on the 
viscid mass below.” 
rocks were scattered around, of four or five tons 
weight, which appeared to have been thrown out in the vol- 
eanic eruptions. ose 
Within one hundred yards of the great crater, is another of 
i illed little Kirauea. ‘Its sides were 
Ascendin arty 
enjoyed an extensive view of this interesting country—of 
Mouna Roa and Mouna Kea, in the distance; and they could 
ed craters, with brown and black streams of lava, over the 
whole-extlent ‘fila sibweec: Ee 
Here they took their last view of the wide-stretched sunken 
plain, with all its hills and banks of sulphur, its blazing cra- 
ters, and its igneous lake. 
“The uneven summits of the steep rocks, that, like a wall, 
many miles in extent, surrounded the crater, and all its 
into the vast furnace, where, reduced a second tinre to a liquifi- 
ed. State, they had again been vomited out.on the adjacent 
anf But. the magnificent fires of Kirauea, which they had 
“iewed with such admiration, appeared to dwindle into taper 
