Eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawaii. 413 
From the distance at which we observed the crater, about ten 
iles, and from various points of observation, it appeared to be 
circular, its width being about equal to its breadth, and perhaps 
800 feet across the mouth. This may be too moderate an esti- 
mate, and it may prove to be 500 or even 800 feet across it, 
The rim of the crater is surrounded or made up of cones formed 
from the stones and scoria thrown out. The lava does not sim- 
ta unning in one | stream, it parts and divides into a great 
pumber, spreading pacts tract of five or six miles in width, 
For the first six miles from the erater, the descent 15 rapid, and 
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