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a few days before been filled to overflowing with boiling lava, 
raging, rolling in fiery waves from side to side of the glowing pit, 
dashing against its heated walls and throwing up its sheets and 
spouts of liquid fire 20, 40 and 50 feet into the air, while the sur- 
rounding deposits of solidified scoria formed a smoking mountain. 
Out of the northern and northwest sides of this accumulated mass 
of voleanic products streams of liquid lava burst from time to 
_ time, flowing down into the central region of the crater, and thus 
raising it, foot by foot, for months and years. Added to these 
subaerial outflows, there were oft-repeated, upward or. vertic 
gushings of lava through seams and crevices; and thus, by these 
twofold actions, the great central depression, caused by the subsi- 
dence of a very large area of this part of the crater, was gradu 
ally filled up. 
One feature of this last eruption of Kilauea is the fact that the 
amps and sending out fiery glances from her red eye-balls. 
the old process of replenishment has begun and after another 
us eruptions also. 
the recent eruption as a sequel to that of August 
rift opened upon the northeastern side of the 
