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strained to spoochlessness says: “Is this all?” But soon the 
broad disk of the lake heaves and trembles. Now the moving 
from side to side; and quick darting streaks, sudden cracks 
of the crust, shoot across in all directions. These serrated streaks 
like crimson ribbons, broadening to 1 Another crimson 
fount springs up the now fretting and roaring rim of the 
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whole fierce red lake is all boil and leap and roar. It is more 
grandest, most varied and most momentous volcanic action to be 
seen on the surface of the globe —Letter to the Commercial Ad- 
vertiser, Honolulu, July 30 
rom a Letter of Rev. Titus Coan, dated Hilo, June 28,—For 
a few ae bad our voleanic fires have been more vivid and glar- 
ing eas 
vite wing of the line is less than six miles from us, 
and he southeastern is less than five miles distant, while the 
flow almost direct to Hilo, rrossing Volcano street, half a mile 
from Mills’ store and entering into the Waialama stream, which 
cuts the beach about midway. In this way the lava at white 
miles from Voleano street, and it is ver uid, running muc 
like water. It has, some part of the time, run at the rate of half 
a mile a 
I have been to the lava flow to-day (June — = returned. 
e found two streams of liquid lava coming down in rocky 
Manso which are sometimes filled with roaring waters, but 
seg Sues pra oo unload des In going down the 
pret. parts of these rocky beds the is like that of the 
