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are thirty or forty feet high, presenting a mural front, and the super- 

 incumbent masses do not appear to differ materially from the trap, of 

 East and West Rock, near New Haven."* Beautiful cascades fall 

 over some of these rocky ledges ; some of them are one hundred 

 feet and more in height. 



Among the Hav^^aiian specimens, the red lavas, by decomposition, 

 afford a red clay, which is used by the natives as a paint. Sulphur, 

 of a pure yellow, is also frequent. Capillary volcanic glass was men- 

 tioned in a former notice of the igneous productions of this island ; 

 it is sometimes so fine as to be blown away by the winds and to be 

 rolled along and accumulated in winrows. A tendency towards form- 

 ing it is exhibited upon the lavas now before us. Frequently the ex- 

 terior is covered with glassy fibres, cemented to and enveloping fused 

 masses of vitreous lava. 



2. JYotices of Kirauea and of the contiguous region, in a second visit 

 of the Rev. Charles Stewart. 



Remark. — In Vol. XI, we gave an analysis of the tour of the mis- 

 sionaries around the island of Hawaii, and endeavored to condense 

 into a connected view the principal facts relating to its volcanic char- 

 acter and phenomena. We also republished a revised letter of the 

 Rev. Charles Stewart, containing an account of his visit with Lord 

 Byron to the great crater of Kirauea.f 



From the interest manifested in those notices, both at home and 

 abroad, we are persuaded that the following will also prove accept- 

 able. They are taken, by permission, from the sheets of the (as yet) 

 unpublished visit of the Rev. Mr. Stewart to the South Seas, with a 

 sight of a part of which he has been so kind as to favor us. In this, 

 his second visit to the South Seas, he went as chaplain of the Vin- 

 cennes, an American national ship of war, commanded by Captain 

 Finch, and the public may expect soon to see Mr. Stewart's own ac- 

 count. The part which we have been permitted to examine is, like 

 Mr. Stewart's former volume, replete with interest and instruction. 



The peculiar design of this Journal does not embrace that part of 

 Mr. Stewart's narrative which relates to the progress of civilization, 



* With which Mr. Goodrich was famiHar while at College; these rocks are green- 

 stone trap, reposing on sandstone ; they greatly resemble, both in texture and posi- 

 tion, Salisbury Craig at Edinburgh. 



t See Vol. XI, p. 362. 



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