Volcanic Eruptions of Hawaii. 237 
passing Kilauea in sublimity and violent activity. Mr. Douglass’s 
observations are, however, received with incredulity by the resi- 
dents. The crater, if thus active, would, like Kilauea, have 
shown evidence of it in an illuminated cloud at night. But 
neither this nor any other proofs of its action were prs at the 
time by the Hawaiians or by the whites residing among them.* 
An eruption took place in January, 1843, which is described by 
Messrs. Andrews and Coan.+ It broke out at the summit, on 
the 10th of January, and continued down the slopes of Mount 
Loa in two streams ; one flowed to the westward towards Kona; 
the other flowed northward to the foot of Mount Kea, and then di- . 
viding, one part continued on towards Waimea northeastward, ? 
and the other towards Hilo, eastward. 
We cite here the account given by the Rev. Mr. Coan of the 
American Mission at Hilo on the eastern shore, who has spent 
no time in his many explorations of Mount Loa. 
n the morning of January 10th, before ‘ang, we discovered : 
a hai beacon fire near the summit ‘of M Mauna Le irectly. in a 
the rear of our station, about thirty miles aay his: wassoon. » * 
found to be a new volcano, bursting out on the 
slope of the mountain, at an élevation of near 13,000 2 
this time, the eruption increased in magnitude and in 
day to day, till it presented a scene of sublime sple oe 
_ Ing vast columns of fiery fluid which rolled in a broad, burning 
river down the side of the mountain. Subsequently fk ap-. - 
peared to burst out at several different points lower down the 
mountain, from whence it flowed off in the direction of Mauna ; 
Kea, filling the great valley between the mountains with a sea a3 
of fire, and throwing a broad sheen of light upon the heavens, ‘+++ 
A comparison of the oe in the ar - oan Mr. Do 
flicers 
be sserrtns the o’ the Vin how that this il oF 
probaly no valaplaned The r ountain (wy (tat Loa), with an ele * 
eet, is maf the most interesting in thé world. z 
enteen days. he-st — is & beers 
ference, and at’ present in ~% 
Situated ‘on the of 2 Roly and reo 
ua the flank: Mauna 
Byron, and which 1 visited also. +It is difficult to 
Place. The s ier fom is lost in terror and a nee 
en ine are it all 0 ur notions of volcanoes as 
= ‘five miles : 
