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voleano ?” while the mountains stood above in silent and solemn 
grandeur. The steamer came up to Kona and to Kau, loaded 
with passengers, curious to witness the eruption, but the fire had 
become extinguished, and they returned disappointed. But before 
the vessel was fairly out of sight, a.remarkable bubbling was seen 
in the sea about three miles south of Kealakekua—where Capt. 
Cook fell,—and a mile from the shore. Approaching the boiling 
Cambria, 194 p- 8vo, with 44 wood-cuts and 4 maps and sec- 
tions. 1877. This report gives from “the elaborate hypsometric 
map of Edmund Smith yet to be published,” the heights of the 
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2,510 feet; also those of the priacipal summits of Laurel Hill, 2,270 
eet, 
(3) Special Report on the Coke Manufacture of the Youghiogheny 
River in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties, with geo- 
logical notes on the Coal and Iron-ore beds, by FRANKLIN Puatr. © 
ee are appended a Report on methods of Coking by John 
ulton, 
facture, by J. P. Pearse and F. Platt. 252 pp. 8vo, with maps 
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