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lake as travellers have spoken of it for years past. It is not often, how- 
ever, I think, that it has been found more active. Different caverns at 
the side of the lake were continually spouting forth their fiery foam, 
while waves of liquid fire occasionally broke upon the rocky banks like 
areturning tidal wave upon old Ocean’s shore. At intervals, sometimes 
of a few seconds, and at other ‘times of half a minute, a large fountain 
broke forth in the middle of the lake and threw up its rounded crest of 
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thrown up twenty or thirty feet. The whole lake, except in the spot of 
active ebullition, was covered with a tough crust or scum of a pale leaden 
‘color, resembling the skin that forms on the surface of a pot of liquid 
Jead or iron. This crust was in continual motion, being drawn in from 
different directions towards the centres of ebullition ; as it entered the 
foaming mass, or the fiery fountains, it was at once consumed and re- 
solved into molten lava. Ever-changing scenes of fire were visible in the 
different portions of this crust, which floated like thin cream on the sur- 
Smal! stones thrown in sank partially through this skin as if into 
mud, The appearance of the fiery fountains throwing up their lurid 
wave eight, ten. or twelve feet, and sending their spray to a height far 
‘above, was awfully and indescribably grand. 
The scene was ever changing; first the greatest display of fireworks, 
fountains spraying and jetting, would be in one quarter of the lake; then 
in another ; then in three, four, or five different points, all at once. At 
irregular intervals of a minute or two, a small cone of twelve or fifteen 
feet in height, and removed some forty feet from the lake, utters the most 
Unearthly roaring and snorting, as if from ten thousand demons confined 
below. These sounds, as well as the jettings and spoutings, seemed to 
from below 
. next bsided. A few acres covered 
by the glistening lava was all that the morning showed of that night’s 
work of Modern Pele. : 
ch asight travellers to Kilauea are permitted to behold. The volcano 
tm ive than i r years. There are occasional slight 
2 On Glacial Phenomena in Nova Scotia; by B. Suman, Jr. 
. om a Report on the Gold property of the New York and Nova Scotia 
te Company. 56 pp., 8vo, 1864.)—The most striking physical 
of this whol i o the eye of a geologist, next perhaps to 
the uptilted state heaters hail is the waren evidence of a high 
, of glacial action, which has ‘so worn down and polished the rocks 
that their’ edges everywhere resemble the leaves of a book which has 
AM. Jour, Sci.—Seconp Series, Vou. XXXVII, No. 111.—Mar, 1864. 
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