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' 6. In December of the same year, Rev. A. Bishop observed that 
the crater had filled up much since the visit he made with Mr. 
Ellis, and he estimates the amount of change as four hundred (?) 
feet. There were a large number of cones “ fifty to one hundred 
- feet high,” besides lakes boiling with much agitation, “every now. 
and then sending forth a gust of vapor and smoke, with great 
noise.” He adds, ‘the natives remarked that after rising a little 
higher the lava will discharge itself, as formerly, towards the sea 
through some aperture under ground.”* 
~é. In October of 1829, Rev. C. S. Stewart made a second visit 
to the crater, and found, as he states, that the lower pit, instead 
of being four or five hundred feet deep, as when he before saw it, 
was but two hundred feet. . He remarked that it had filled up at 
east two hundred feet. It was more quiet than in 1825, but 
there were still several boiling lakes of lava, and some cones in 
great activity.t i 
_d. In September of 1832, when the Rev. J. Goodrich visited 
Kilauea, the eruption had taken place.t He says that every thing 
had changed: 'The lavas, which previously had increased so as 
to fill up to the black ledge, and fifty feet above, about nine hund- 
red [four hundred ?] feet in all, had sunk down again nearly to 
the same depth, leaving, as usual, a boiling cauldron at the south 
id. The earthquake of January preceding had rent in twain 
the walls of the crater, on the east side, from top to bottom, pro- 
ducing seams from a few inches to several yards in width, from 
which the region between the two craters was deluged with lava. 
Abont half way up the precipice there was a rent a quarter of a 
mile in length, from which immense quantities of lava boiled 
out directly underneath the hut formerly occupied by the party of 
Byron. The position of Byron’s hut is seen at C, on the 
figure at the foot of the preceding page, and near p, on the figure 
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_ From these accounts, it is probable that in addition to the ejec- 
tions from the east wall, which are insufficient to account for the 
subsidence in the lower pit, there must also have been a subterra- 
nean outlet béneath the sea, as the native with Mr. Bi had 
predicted... This elevation of the lava a thousand feet above the 
lower pit, with its discharge from the very wall of the crater, 1s 
worthy of special note. | rad . 
diPhevnext eruption to. that of 1832, was the one already refer- 
red to, that eal on the 30th of May, 1840, the lavas of 
which, where they reached the sea, were in some places still hot 
when visited by the author in the November following. 
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FT) Visit - , 2 vols, 12mo. New York, 1831.—ii, 78. 
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