136 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
oe at Volcano of Kivu Hawaii; by the Rev. Trrvs Coan — 
(Fro rom ¢ er to J. D. Dana, dated Hilo, Sept. 1, 1857.)—I_ was at 
Kilauea fei the younger Binghne and others in June last. Pele wat 
— quiet. The ice change is the subsidence of the vast dome, some 
00 feet high and two miles in circuit, which covered ma area of the 
aie fire-lake, Melesachcan, All that area is now a deep basin, en 
cled by a rim consisting, in some places, of a bold per rpendicular prec ; 
mi and in others of an inclined plane of unequal angles, prents 
numerous yawning fissures and strewed with immense masses 
The bottom of this basin is rent and smoking, and studded with a a 
cones. Near the centre, and enclosed by a jagged rim from 20 to 50 feet 
high, is the lake of fire, which has burnt from time immemorial. It 8 
about 100 feet below the rim and some 500 feet in diameter. When out 
party approached it, opts was oe little action; but in about half aa 
hour, = ieee Pele, as if to give us a special bencke began to fire up in 
earnest ; the great one ae eae faciedaly on the southern side; the 
sthesbte fusion rolled in a fiery wave over the black and hardened i 
which covered the Jake like i ice, breaking it down by sections, and. tilting 
eastern ban 
have approached the southern bank. After a ade season, all wi was = 
again and the surface of the lake blackened and crusted over; Pele ad 
dropped her curtain. These scenes were repeated in the night, as we 
= see from the great brilliancy oceasionally displayed. 
oan, in the same letter, states it as his opinion based on his sur 
vey of the region, that the lavas of the last ee eruption of f Mount 
Loa, which began in 1855, and continued on for fifty miles, all flowed 
i k on 
from a single opening,—that of the first great outbrea 
. Ei kes—About four o’clock on the morning of October 
5 an earthquake at St. Louis, Missouri, “made the more subs 
hock of a: 
buildings tremble.” Seven minutes later there was another shock 
shocks were felt at Springfield, Illinois, and elsewhere. At Centralis 
nois, there were three distinct shocks at intervals of five minutes, ¢ 
the same hour in the morning, the first of the three being 
enough to throw down chimneys. 
On the 23d of October, soon after three o’clock in the afternoon; © 
earthquake shock was felt at Bufialo, N vee It was also perceived to ee 
westward in Ohio, at Dayton, F orestville, of 
Another shock occurred at Charleston, 8. Carolina, on the morning he 
the 19th of December, about nine o'clock. 
It is much to be desired that som en rson in the region of these pe 
quakes should collect all the information respecting them, especially #1" 
reference : e time and intensities of the shocks at different ever 
these times accurately det agree being the data necessary for d 
the ainelion from which the earth uake came, its course, th, 
progress, and the intensities, gine the point of greatest action. 
