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thinks it is now only a mile from our town, and that it can be 
reached :n 15 minutes. It now seems nearly sure that this. 
advance pi reach ts. Still we have 
t is now 84 months since the eee banet ne SN near the simmit 
of the Rene ae ig this period it has sent out a vast stream 
some 30 miles toward Mauna Kea; another of nearly equal 
dimensions tow ‘id  Rllation Between these streams others of 
very liquid paihoehoe have divided and subdivided on the sides 
of the mountain, on the plains below, and in the en forest 
between the mountain and the sea. Some parts of the fiery line 
are still operating in the woods about five miles —_ pat the 
southeastern wing has come through in force, and from thi wing 
the stream which now threatens us has advanced ‘our chiles from 
the main body. Should its speed increase it will soon enter our 
town in the channel which cuts the beach about in its center and 
enter the harbor. But as the body of the fiery fusion is too 
large to be confined to the water channel, — will probably spread 
on both sides and thus consume many buildings. 
t is amusing to see the children and even melee people gathered 
at. the lower end of the flow an along its margin, all eager to 
collect specimens from the viscid streams, moulding with poles 
the plastic mass, as the potter the clay, into various forms of cups, 
vases, birds, fishes, etc. These are readily sold at various prices 
to strangers. 
3. sn een drift on Mt. Ktaadn, Maine.—From a paper by 
C. EK. published as N 5 of vol. vii g Se Bulletin 
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Series), entitled Observations upon the Physical Geography a1 
apis of Mt. Ktaadn and the adjacent district, we cite i 
ea Siecatie from its relation to the rane ai of 
drift, whatev may have been the agent that moved i m the 
north, is aie 5 wanting upon Kt aadn. Fie two siidéa Ena the 
chief amount of such material. * 
On the East Slide much less drift is fan than on the other 
Outside of the es I have never found drift upon the flanks of 
the mountain; but it re-appears higher up, in very small amount 
on the Table Spee rite pep acts upon the northern summits, 
rsely strewn amon e broken granite that covers them 
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owlders, but always as fragments of moderate size. On the 
Southwest Slide a “few masses were seen as heavy as a hundred 
be we run 1 from a few ounces es up to twenty Leen in Ble 2a 
ments of stratified rocks on ‘he Southwest Slide very 
generally foctude fossil shells, mainly Brachiopods, and always 
