350 Real and supposed effects of igneous action. 
It very strongly resembles some of the capillary products 
of the great iron furnaces. I have some which I obtained 
from those of Salisbury in Connecticut, which could scarce- 
ly be distinguished from this volcanic glass. 
10. Igneous stalactites—These, which the missionaries 
have so well described, as falling from the currents of lava 
and congealing either in the caverns, or on the lips of pro- 
jecting precipices, are perfectly intelligible from inspecting 
those transmitted by Mr. Goodrich. They are sometimes 
tolerably regular cones; at other times, twisted, protuber- 
ant and convoluted in various fantastic forms, and exhibit in 
their black glassy surfaces, most legible records of the ef- 
fect of fire.* 
It is obvious on inspecting the lavas and various products 
of this, the most stupendous and magnificent volcano on our 
globe,t that its products have undergone the most powerful 
effects of voleanic heat ; every fragment (those alone, resem- 
bling the primitive rocks, being perhaps excepted,) being re- 
plete with the records of fire. 
ndeed how can it be otherwise! Kirauea is evidently 
only the chimney of that vast furnace of fire, which is in 
ceaseless activity beneath the bed of the Pacific ocean, and 
whose seat is many miles below the crater. These subma- 
rine volcanos have, probably by accumulation, raised many 
of the Pacific islands from the bottom of the ocean: the 
same tremendous agent may hereafter blow some of them 
to atoms, and scatter their fragments among the trade winds ; 
and other islands may, and probably will hereafter rise, 
where navies now plough the ocean, without encountering 
ava of a bronze color. 
ripti XII. of this Journal, especially that of the 
