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charge itself, as formerly, towards the sea through some aperture under 
ground.’ * 
c. In October of 1829, Rev. C. S. Stewart made a second visit to 
the crater, and found, as he states, that the lower pit, instead of being 
four or five hundred feet deep, as when he before saw it, was but 
two hundred feet. He remarked that it had filled up at least two 
hundred feet. It was more quiet than in 1825, but there were still 
several boiling lakes of lava, and some cones in great activity.t 
d. In September of 1832, when the Rev. J. Goodrich visited 
Kilauea, the eruption had taken place.t He says that everything 
had changed. ‘The lavas, which previously had increased so as to fill 
up to the black ledge, and fifty feet above, about nine hundred [four 
hundred ?] feet in all, had sunk down again nearly to the same depth, 
leaving, as usual, a boiling cauldron at the south end. The earth-- 
quake of the January preceding had rent in twain the walls of the crater 
on the east side, from top to bottom, producing seams from a few 
inches to several yards in width, from which the region between the 
two craters was deluged with lava. About half way up the precipice 
there was a vent a quarter of a mile in length, from which immense 
quantities of lava boiled out directly underneath the hut formerly 
occupied by the party of Lord Byron. ‘The position of Byron’s hut 
is seen at C, on the figure at the foot of the preceding page, and near 
n, on the figure on page 173. 
From these accounts, it is probable that in addition to the ejections 
from the east wall, which are insufficient to account for the subsidence 
in the lower pit, there must also have been a subterranean outlet be- 
neath the sea, as the native who was with Mr. Bishop had predicted. 
This elevation of the lavaa thousand feet above the lower pit, and dis- 
charge from the very wall of the crater, is worthy of special note. 
The next eruption to that of 1832, was the one, already referred to, 
that commenced on the 30th of May, 1840, the lavas of which, where 
they reached the sea, were in some places still hot when visited by 
the author in the November following. 
The only published accounts of the crater subsequent to that just 
mentioned by Mr. Goodrich, and previous to this eruption, are those 
* Missionary Herald, xxiii. 53. 
t Visit to the South Seas, 2 vols. 12mo. New York, 1831.—ii. 78. 
+ American Journal of Science, xxy. 199. 
