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burst of blood red fusion poured out of the same orifice apparently, 
about four o’clock, and saw a glare of light streaming through our 
windows. Oar first thought was that some building near us was 0 
fire, but on rising we soon perceived that the whole summit of the 
mountain was irradiated, and that a vast furnace was there glaring 
with vehement heat. The molten flood rolled down the side of the 
comes sluggish at night, and the next day, or after twenty-four hours, 
no traces of it were visible from the station; no smoke by day and no 
fire by night. We had thought of paying a visit to the scene of action} 
but when the action ceased our pedestrian desires ceased also. Thus 
we slept. 
But our slumbers were soon broken. At six o’clock, a. M., on the 
20th, we perceived fire issuing from the side of the mountain towards 
Hilo, and about half way down the mountain. At first the stream shot 
directly down towards Hilo ; but meeting some obstacle near the foot of 
the mount, its direction was changed to the north, and it is still flowing 
towards Mauna Kea. 0 
and 
the scene by night is one of terrible sublimity. The red-hot lava still 
rolls out of the side of the mountain in awful floods. It seems as ! 
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The horizon is hung in murky drapery; detonations, like distant 
: j WwW 
Monday, 23d.—The eruption is still internally active. The fiery 
fluid is in the upper region of the woods and the smoke is great. Dr. 
W. and myself are packed and ready to start for the mountain. 
Yours truly, T. Coan. 
Another correspondent writes as follows :— 
ey Pie “ Hino, February 24, 1852. — 
Another eruption is now taking place on Mauna Loa, It presents 4 
Scene of sublimity unsurpassed. The side of 
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reflects upon the clouds its cherry red hue, and as they gather in densit¥ 
about the mountain, are caught up by the upward current of atmos 
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