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this great reddish floor, within the lava rim, rise thirteen volcanic cones to a 

 height of several hundred feet. The crater was left in this state intact by 

 reason of the fact that side vents drained the fires below. Hence, Haleakala 

 is one volcano that did not destroy its crater. 



Mauna Loa is known as the greatest of living volcanoes. Kilauea is 

 celebrated for its lake of fire. These two volcanoes are on the same mountain 

 range. Mauna Loa is the younger and stronger, and it has grown so high 

 that it has almost absorbed Kilauea. Mauna Loa soars 13,675 feet above the 

 not far distant sea. It is active every five or ten years. Its slopes are 

 covered with forests of native mahogany or koa and tangles of giant 

 tree ferns. 



The most spectacular exhibit of Hawaii National Park is Kilauea's Lake 

 of Fire. In the middle of a plateau 4,000 feet high, drops a pit with vertical 

 sides in which Kilauea boils its lava. Occasionally lava geysers spout 150 

 feet in the air. At other times the lake simply boils, a seething mass of fire, 

 which can be photographed on the darkest night. Sometimes the lava disap 

 pears entirely for several years at a stretch. 



These volcanoes are reached by motor from the ships that ply to Hilo, 

 on the island of Hawaii. Visitors can approach surprisingly near the Lake 

 of Fire. On the rim of Kilauea is a hotel known as the Volcano House. 

 Other accommodations on the order of the lodges of other parks are also 

 available at reasonable rates. 



Throughout this park are found wonderful examples of rich tropical 

 plant growth, giant tree ferns as high as houses, mahogany forests, numerous 

 interesting trees found nowhere outside the tropics, and an abundance of 

 wild flowers. The forests and wild flower gardens are made the more 

 colorful by the gaily colored birds of the Hawaiian Islands. 



ACADIA NATIONAL PARK 



Acadia National Park occupies a considerable portion of the Mount 

 Desert Island, off the Maine Coast at the mouth of Penobscot Bay. It is a 

 region of rugged granite mountains, bays, promontories, woods, and lakes, 

 renowned for its exquisite beauty since the date of its discovery in 1604 by 

 the French navigator, Champlain. It figured prominently in the early coloni 

 zation activities of the French, but was not settled until the English obtained 

 possession of Canada. 



Acadia Park is unique in several ways. Its territory for a century was 

 in private hands. It has been ceded to the government piece by piece, and the 

 park is being increased in size from time to time by new contributions of 

 land. Within the modest boundaries of the park there is a wonderful over 

 lapping of species of plant life, from both the north and the south along the 

 Atlantic Coast. It is also a wild life sanctuary of importance. 



Acadia Park is the most easterly of the national parks and is reached 

 by the Maine Central Railroad or by motor from Bar Harbor, Maine, where 

 the superintendent of the park maintains his office. Good roads of great 

 scenic beauty traverse the park. Motor-boat trips along the shoreline of the 

 island are an additional attraction. 



