Eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawaii. 415 
hour by the hissing and roaring of the approaching fire, and 
had but just time to save themselves. Some of the houses of 
the inland portion of the village were partly surrounded before 
the inmates were aware of their danger. ainanalii is near the 
northern boundary of North Kona, and about twelve or fourteen 
miles from Kawaihae. It is, of course, all destroyed, and its 
pleasant little harbor filled up with lava. The volcanic stream 
was one mile wide or more in some places, and much less in 
others. It crossed the Kona road and interrupted the mail com- 
munication. The whole distance of the flow from the crater to 
the sea is some forty miles. 
last night (the 3d Feb.) the volcano was in full blast, and 
the burning stream seems to have taken another direction.” 
ir. Coan writes from:-Hilo on Feb. 3, having projected but 
Many pronounce it the greatest eruption we have ever had in so 
short a time 
Visible from Hilo at the summit or side of the mountain, but the 
ht is still intense all over the isthmus between the mountains. 
: Pp geet that iad he in 
its jet or fountain of lavas at the great outbreak. e first out- 
break at the summit shows that a column of lavas of ep am 
Loa had the height of about 18,000 feet, or 9500 above arta 
of the bottom of the crater of Kilauea. The second xe . 
ta height of 6500 feet, was therefore 6500 feet below t! 7 lees 
it proves that a column of 6500 feet of heavy liquid ‘avas 
18 acting by its in producing | ; 
described, Like kt Alt on yn eruptions of the grand old 
kings or subte 
ere j : : heise 
is rock material enough in Mauna Loa to make one 
red and twenty-five Vesuviuses. teed 
