Miscelianeous Intelligence. 525 
IT. MisceLLANeous Screntiric INTELLIGENCE. 
1. The newly discovered Crater of Maui. (From a letter of T. 
M. ALExanDeER to the editor of the Hawaiian Gazette, dated Dec, 
Keahikano. The sides within and without were covered with the 
usual vegetation of our mountains, mantled over all the trunks 
and branches with thick elegant mosses, and interspersed with a 
few palm trees. The bottom of the crater and the greater part of 
the mountain above to the summit were overspread with a thick 
and the upper portion of the mount nts, 
Strange ferns, violets, a species of daisy, and splendid lobelias, 
were abundant. But what especially attracted my attention = 
stretching from near the. Waihee to the Honokahau Valley, form- 
ing the terminal point of valleys for seven or eight miles of the 
Coast, and the reservoir, as I was told, of the greater part of the 
Streams of the Waihee, Kahakuloa and Honokahau Valleys. In 
this crater, situated in all parts of it, were nearly a score of vol- 
Cane pits, not cones, but pits fifteen to fifty feet broad and ten to 
twenty feet deep, with shrubbery within concealing the chasms 
low, Passing around the northern brink, and near the Honoka- 
hau Valley, I was surprised to see a slender column of steam or 
Smoke, rising from one of these pits. 1t was a cold, clear morning 
before sunrise, with a light south wind blowing, so that there was 
Such a phenomenon. Going near, I perceived that white 
Were indeed arising from a chasm through the shrubbery at the 
