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lips readily kissed the rocks to obtain a little moisture from the fros' 
There was snow on another part of the mountain, far below us, but 
was not in our track. The fires had melted all in this region. 
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wake some thirty-five miles, hoping by a forced march to reach it at 
night. 
At eight a. m., we passed the seat of the grand eruption ‘of 1852, 
and travelled for miles in its cinders. A little steam, only, issues from 
that cone whose awful throat, in 1852, sent up a column of ylowing fu- 
sion to the height of a thousand feet. . 
At the base of this cone, on the opposite side, the ground was thickly 
powdered with a hoar frost, and so intense was our thirst that our whole 
party lay down together and eagerly licked it from the rocks and sand. 
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guide lost his way, and we were obliged to encamp. 
Early on ceeetey, pe pat we were astir, wasderiag ine 
At half-past one Pp. m., we reached old Kilauea, where we oi 
— on Ohelo berries, water, and such stores as were Ne in our 
ar 
The next day we explored Kilauea, made some enaeucone col- 
ected specimens, etc., and on ‘Thursday the 11th inst. we reached Hilo, 
having been absent ten days. Kilauea is still very active, thoug 
intensely so as in past. 
" n the mountain and in Kilauea I took the angles of seve 
2 senor one of 49°, another of 60°, and two of 80° each. 
og on ah mountain flowed down banks of scoria twenty- 
tl hirty sheesh ce: 
“the age was complete—the streams cooled in a pertenes state. 
Iso saw thin strata, say one inch thick or less, whjch had fic 
do wn the face of perpendicular rocks, adhering to the rocks ee p st 
and thus cooling. Will you say that I spoil my demonstration by pre 
ing too much, when [| assert that [saw more than one place where 
fusion flow nan angle of 95°—like the Indian’s tree which grew 
follow the inward curve in a pe. layer like molasses, adhering tol 
ted in ore a fact capable of entire deme 
stration that cur Hawaiie ay freely down every slope, from 
an angle of 30’ to + pes dicular—in the latter case in a very thi 
saw the great igneous river flowing - 
like oil down an angle sof 33 other place it leaped a preci- 
pics. forming a brilliant checade: i: 
But [lack time space to ® tell 
which we saw, and hear 
Hilo is now in a sate of so 
it ‘is still 
