T. Coan on recent volcanic disturbances of Hawaii. 89 
_ eee —Notes on the recent volcanic disturbances of Ha- 
; by Rev. Trrus Coan ;* (from a letter to J. D. Dan 
dated Sept. 1, 1868). 
I HAVE recently returned from a tour of eighteen days in 
Puna and Kau, during which time I visited all the important 
points of interest, took measurements, and made careful obser- 
vations, I take the liberty to give you a few facts and remarks 
from my notes 
I left Hilo on the 4th of August and took the shore road 
through Puna, From Hilo to the east cape, Kapoho, the dis- 
turbances were not remarkable. Walls and rocks had been, 
more or less, shaken down, and fractures appeared, here and 
there, in the earth. From the east cape to the south point of 
the island, Kalae, the disturbance had been great. The whole 
coast line # Bppeare to have > undergone a subsidence of unequal 
depth, AtK f Kapoho, 
where there has an a small pool of brackish water, passed by 
& causeway of stones, the water now stands, at igh tide, thee 
our feet deep, and spreads out among cocoa-nut groves 
iven in a heavy beach a ae sand for two hundred feet into 
utiful young cocoa-nut grove, and spoiled a delightful 
lawn, At Kalapana, Se sand beach has been forced into 
six to eight feet deep in sand, and the shore line has been pressed 
k the distance of 100 feet. The old stone church is nearly 
buried in sand, and the tide rises and falls within its walls. 
t hao stood 200 feet frome the water. _ agree of Kala- 
myse 
ph eon stated just what was reported tome. The truth now appears to be 
went, under ground, into the sea at uu, and 
broke out at Hiilea, a optical alee ot 1 of Mr. sigs pom many others. 
Spoke and wrote what, at a distance, eg eee to them as facts, but which 
Ores grrors on careful ins ion. So also th rp ttt ras 
T the tops of cocoa-nut trees, sixty hook hlghs: inca 
‘In my letter published in the Missionary Herald for eo wi sot 2 
Say 500 to 600 head of cattle, which is 
