226 Scventific Intelligence. 
2. Progress of the Voleanic Eruption on Hawaii. 
The great eruption of Mauna Loa has been towibg — about 
upper vents, near Mokuaweoweo, the summit crater, a river 
four miles widt n 
Hilo, abveatenidy to destroy the town, to fill up the harbor, and 
probably, as on a former occasion of eruption, invade the Pacific 
ocean and add many sates acres to the area of the Archipelago. 
Whilst seeking for compensation in the view of a possible great 
misfortune, it may i interesting to note, that whilst King Kala- 
kaua is making the tour of the world, in order to bring more peo- 
ple under his beneficent Mabel the coddess Pele may be adding a 
new appanage to His Majesty’s dominion 
The latest teports em the eruption inform us that the great 
lava flow that had reached within two miles of Hilo, had then 
broadened its stream to a width of about four niles, and banked 
and should the great “he embankment burst forth along its front, 
the destruction of Hilo would be swift and overwhelming, with 
not a vestige upon the sartugated and wavy surface of black i 
and clinker to show that over the spot, the hae and spire 
of a vac latoig community once pointed to heav 
earn from recent visitors many iiterestitig particulars in 
regard to o the present state of the reat a PpOnEE Kilauea, 
the great crater; now these lakes have all been filled up, and 
there have arisen "peaks and cones of hard lava, that rise over one 
hundred feet above the south bank of the great crater which is 
about one thousand feet high. But there has burst forth a new 
opening in the great crater floor, not far distant from the old 
lakes, and a new lake, almost round in form, about six bundred 
presents the most varied fantastic er of liquid lava. The 
ing are some of the phases us the ay of a fire lake, as recently 
observ ed in the crater of auea. Sometimes it almost 
ow 
the observer who has expected to have his ser 
* The earlier features of the eruption were announced in the last yolume of 
this Journal, on page 79, in a letter from Rev. T. Coan, of Hilo. 
