236 Volcanic Eruptions of Hawatt. 
with clinkers, while in others, smoother tracts of solid lava 
constituted the surface. The fissures had in general a north- 
northwest and south-southeast direction, and one near the west 
bank had ejected lavas at no distant period. Two cinder cones 
at the bottom, consisting of light scoria, were remarkably per- 
fect in form, and 0 ne was two hundred feet high. About many 
of the fumaroles there were the same salts that occur at the sul- 
phur banks of Kilauea. 
Besides the large pit there were two others, one on the north, 
and another (called Pohakuo-hanalei) on the south, both of which 
_ may be looked upon as subordinate to the central crater, as they 
~are enclosed within the same general rim or outline. "I'here is also 
pipottier small pit, distinct from these, a short distance to the south. 
“Into Pohakuo-hanalei, a stream of lava had run from Mokua- 
‘weo-w weo, and Capt. Wilkes remarks that it a wee a caseade of 
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© plastered on the edges in clots, which seemed of the consistency 
of tar lelted ‘sealing-wax of various colors, the most predomi- 
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ss vik RE were ‘several small cones aotit the summit, both to the 
ee Sea ae 
at ya of Mokua-weo-weo. . 
» eee. of the summit, where there was evidence in their 
ns is known witle regard to the eruptions of the summit 
Yet there is abundant evidence that, even at the present 
any vents, that the fires were seen on every 
d* were ie as as fab as gece upwards of 
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