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144 Miscellaneous Intelligence. : 
We cannot determine satisfactorily that there is a sympathy betwee 
this mountain crater and old Kilauea. In my last letter I hase - “ d 
that the latter was intensely active during the latter part of Ma 
early part of June. Afier this the action gradually moderated il he 
it was 
dently forming vents to igneous subterranean canals which are carrying — 
the incandescent floods from this he active vent to the northern parts 
of the crater, sometimes overflowing this region and sometimes heav- 
ing up the ponderous Hepevakeanbaboors Strata, ‘like the surface of an agi- 
tated ocean. ‘The great dome over Halemaumau, is swept away, and 
a raised and jagged rim from 20 to 60 feet high, now encircles it. hot 
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ing of its fiery zone—or of that half which surrounds it, a to which 
the recent action has been confined. ‘This belt or lava zone has been 
raised from 100 to 200 — since April, Ist, by uplifting _: 7” 2 
by successive overflowings. 
The commencement of this eruption is mentioned in an odfier letter 
from Mr. Coan, addressed to Rev. C. S. Lyman, of this “hed It is dated 
8 He : Says: 
evening of the 11th of ae i a small point poe 
Sirivs, was seen at the height of 12,600 feet on the nort 
of Mauna Loa. This radiant point rapidly expanded, throwing off 
ruscations of light, until it looked like a full orbed sun.” ‘Th 
ng like 
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China and Japan. The communication related to the Earthqua 
Simoda, which appears in many of its features to have resemble 
which destroyed Lisbon in 1775, when the lakes of Scotland were 
denly elevated, and the sea at Maderia rose to a prodigious height 
Thus, tHalate earthquake at Japan was followed by a rise of th 
land wa ers of Chihkiang in China, and by an extraordinary gate 
and s ovbacian eval ion of the sea at the Bonin Islands. Th ; 
ance of “ w 
quakes in C 
nd of the high rednparitete of the 
Society were voted to Dr. a 
