J. D. Dana—LHMistory of the Changes in Kilauea. 441 
eastern, toward the sulphur banks; and there Rev. EH. Loomis, 
in June, 1824, found it by measurement to be “nearly fif- 
teen rods” wide.* Lord Byron, on his descent into the pit, 
went from the northeast to the northwest side, and says: 
the width (referring probably to the north side) varies from 
four or five feet to upwards of twenty. The annexed sketch, 
4, Kilauea. Drawn by R. Dampier. 
which is a copy (reduced one-third) of the plate by R. Dampier, 
making the frontispiece to Lord Byron’s “ Voyage” (V), has 
the ledge very narrow.t+ It is not quite certain what part of the 
crater the view represents. Mts. loa and Kea are in the 
* Memoir of Wm. T. Brigham, p. 407. 
+ The plate in Ellis’s Polynesian Researches makes the breadth about the same 
on the two sides, as the following outline copy (reduced a sixth) shows; but, as 
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5. The Volcano of Kilauea, in Hawaii. 
has been explained (p. 436) it has little value as to details. In the relative 
depths, however, of the lower pit and upper portion it agrees better with the 
several descriptions than the other plates. 
