MEOWUONT) LOTA,) HAW ATT. 213 
Near this line there are two cones. One on the north side of the 
fifth pit-crater (and called Pohi, or Puhuluhu), consists of rugged 
lavas, and according to the measurements of Captain Wilkes, it is eight 
hundred feet high above the plain on which it stands. It contains a 
deep conical crater, and is covered throughout with trees. The 
other, still larger, stands on the northern brim of the ‘“ Deep Crater,” 
and also contains a crater. Besides these, there is a smaller elevation 
of similar character near the second pit-crater (following the above 
enumeration). Dr. Pickering estimated its height at one hundred 
feet, and the circular crater within as five hundred feet in diameter. 
Near the third pit-crater is another rugged hill seventy feet high, con- 
sisting of lavas, which appeared to be the remains of a cone of eruption. 
Between the last pit-crater and Kapoho Point, there are fifteen or 
more lava or scoria cones, varying from two hundred to over one thou- 
sand feet in height. Kalalua, about half way, (KK, map, page 169,) 
rises eleven hundred feet above its base, and is the highest of the 
number. The plain about it is twelve hundred and forty-two feet 
above the sea. ‘These cones are usually covered with vegetation, and 
the crater of one, as Captain Wilkes states, was occupied by a garden. 
In another, near the sea, there is a small lake of light green water, 
containing fish. After an earthquake its water has frequently turned 
red and yellow, and smelt of sulphur. Another ‘is said to contain 
a hot spring, which the natives use as a bath.” 
Cape Kapoho lies nearly east of the summitof Mount Loa, and appears 
to owe its prominence and extent, and even its existence, to the fact 
that the region on this side of the mountain has been the seat of va- 
rious eruptions and numerous opened fissures. ‘These eruptions have 
given a greater elevation to the surface in the line of the cape; and 
the northeast course of the last twelve miles of the eruption of 1840 
(see map, page 169) may have been determined by this fact. 
The line of craters extending southwest from Kilauea lies nearly 
in the course of the longer diameter of this crater, and covers a former 
fissure. We have no particulars to add in this place beyond the facts 
stated on page 165. 
Many cones in different parts of the mountain might be described ; 
but the examinations made give little more than their general form and 
size, particulars which are of little geological interest, without further 
observations on their relative positions, linear arrangements (if any is 
apparent) and other facts illustrating the lines of fissures of eruption 
about the slopes of the mountain. 
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