Volcanic — the Island — 38 . 
The natives said ‘en were informed by their fathers, that 
all the land had once been overflowed by the sea, except a 
small peak on the top of Mouna Kea, where two hum 
= were preserved from the destruction which overtook the 
rest. 
The senivils and abstract which we have now given of the 
jourial of the missionaries, as regards the volcanic appear- 
ances in Hawaii, nts a series of facts, in the highest de- 
gree interesting and instructive. In'vol. 4, at page ee we 
ave.a similar exhibition of the leading: facts observed 
i. W.. Webster; and recorded in his very valuable and enter- 
taining account of the Azores. ‘Those observ ations were made 
and 
crimination. ‘It is with great pleasure that we it eure warm 
commendation of the late effort of the missionaries. Situated 
in a remote island, in the vast expanse of the Pacific, intense- 
_ dy and ardently oceupied i in their great object, the moral im- 
provement and civilization of the natives ;—remote from the 
fights of science, arid sire to physical privations both fre- 
quent and severe, we c we them many thanks for the 
coe amount of sae i fr namie which they have, inci- 
contributed, ‘history of 
They. lave, “ina very TV nleatay manner. 
tific imstruction with moral; and both # 
religious world will unite in expressin. 
ments to * missionaries. Tt is a happy illustration of | the 
good instruments to illustrate the different branches of natural 
