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legends are told. Another was called “Ka twit o Pele,” Pele’s 
bone, and close by it on the north side is the Pu puaa o Pele, or 
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to the Argyroxiphium, or silver-sword plant. The natives also 
report a bottomless hole on the northwest part of the crater, 
which I did not visit, but which has been seen by my father and 
others. 
sides, and measuring the remaining angles, and returned to 
Makawao late in the evening of the llth. After having worked 
height by triangulation 2,750 feet above the east end of my 
ine in the crater. The boiling water experiment gave an 
€ of 10,165 by Regnault’s rule, which is certainly a close 
Pproximation. oe 
+he northern or Koolau break is about three miles wide, and 
Over 2,000 feet deep, where it first leaves Bae crater. The 
t N. 64° E. e 
western brink of it bears about N. 64° E bottom of it is © 
floored with streams of lava of different ages, and is extremely 
.; 1€ southeast or Kaupo break is about a mile and a quarter 
Wide, and its direction for the first three or four miles is about 
S. 58° E. The lava flow then turns to the southward, and 
Continues in the direction S. 34° E. to the sea, spreading out 
Mm the form of a delta, and filling up the lower part of several 
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