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As the party travelled out of Pualoa, “ the lava was cov- 
ered with a tolerably thick layer of soil, and the verdant 
plain, extending several miles towards the foot of the moun- 
tains, was agreeably diversified by ps of picturesque hills, 
originally craters, but now clothed with grass, and ornament-* 
ed with clumps of trees. The natives informed them that 
three of these groups, Honuaura, Malama, and Maria, being 
contiguous and joined at their base, arrested the progress of 
an immense torrent of lava, which in the days of Taiaiopu, 
the friend of Capt. Cook, inundated all the country beyond 
them.” 
After traversing another tract of rough lava they arrived 
at Kapoho, situated in an amphitheatre, once evidently a era- 
ter, but now filled with people and cottages, and smiling with 
ure and cultivation. The centre was occupied by a 
child peat 
brackish Jake in which the re swimming, sporting 
and diving, . : ; 
On the 13th of August, near Waiakea, t three 
The face of the country near Waiakea is rendered very 
itiful by the frequent long repose which this 
region has enjoyed from the desolating effects of volcanic 
eruptions. 
As the travellers occasionally avoided the roughness of the 
land by coasting along the shores, they had opportunity to 
_ observe the bold volcanic rocks, springing up sometimes 600 
feet perpendicularly from the sea—and displaying various 
strata of vesicular lava—from which the water was frequently 
of the inhabitants were involved in the consequences. : 
On the 25th of August, Mr. Goodrich enced his as- 
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