16 THE VOLCANO OF KILAUEA, 
animals appear to the common observer, yet a description 
of their minute anatomy alone would form many a chapter 
of surpassing interest to those who delight in contempla- 
ting the perfection of God’s works. 
_In our next paper we shall commence the description 
of the different species of land snails to be found in New 
England. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE lI. 
wig, 1 Seater? id of hn ie lareiras of a snail. op. optic 
eye; o. olfacto 
Fig. 2. Helin albolabris, ai shell pant | ad ee thrown back, 
sho ung and heart. m. mouth; h. heart 
Fig. 3. One row of teeth from the sam gnil 
Fig. 4. A portion of one row of A from the Raye, highly magnified. 
Fig. 5. Side view of teeth of the 
Fig. 6. Entire tongue of a ontgegend 
Fig. 7. Jaw of wee magnified. 
Fi 8. Nerve centres of Helix Cina 
Fi 9. Shell of Helis albolabri 
ig. S 
Fig. 10. Helix albolabris crawling. 
Fig. 11. d back, showing oritice to lung, a. 
Fig. 12: Ldu ng and eah of “Garten — Limax flavus. 
Fig. 13. id ONDINE from t 
THE VOLCANO OF KILAUEA, HAWAIIAN 
ISLANDS, IN 1864-65, 
PLATE 2. 
BY W. T. BRIGHAM. 
Soon after one o’clock we came upon the brink of the 
great crater. From below us steam and vapor rose in a 
sluggish column, but we saw no fire and heard no noise: 
the conflagration had, as it were, left nothing but smoking 
ruins to mark the scene of its triumph. The deep plain 
before us was surrounded with steep rock-walls, from 
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