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gorgements. The whole mass was threwn out of the earth like 
the discharge of a cannon, with a rush of wind and an awful roar. 
The whole action was seen by Mr. Richardson and others on 
the N. E., and by Mr. Lyman and others on the 8. W. side of 
the eruption. The premises of both these gentlemen came 
near being swallowed up in this upheaval. 
For the last twelve days, few probably of the people of Hilo 
and Kau have put off their clothes for sleeping. Many have 
camped out in the fields, and all have been anxious to secure 
places of comparative safety. 
We still have repeated shocks, which send us out of our 
houses by day and night, and our house has often jarred and 
quivered since I have been writing these lines. But the shocks 
to act in concert ; the fires in the mountain and in Kilauea 
rising and falling together, and the great subterranean move- 
ments, and the rush into the sea, being simultaneous. The 
<u of Kilauea have been drawn off and the crater has sunk 
fri pailosophical reasonings and conclusions to our scientific 
iends, 
April 10, Last evening news came in from Waiohinu and 
Kahuku, that all that region was in ruins. The terrors were 
awful, Not an un house left. 67 lives lost by the 
influx of the sea, and no shore village standing. The lavas 
have broken ground in Kau and are flowing to the sea. Our 
‘still continue at intervals. 
2. Extracts from a letter from Mr, Freverick 8. Lyuan, dated 
se April 10th, 1868, addressed to D, B. Lyman, Esq., of Chi- 
Jo. 
eo In my last letter from Kau I left page 
uesday evening, the 3lst ult. That night from about ten til 
two the shaking was almost incessant; it then subsided, Wed- 
Resday morning about sunrise there wasa hard shock, and 
