744 
Kahoolawe, 2382. 
Kailua, warm spring of, 215. 
Kapoho Point, Hawaii, 213. 
Kauai, general features of, 262. 
geological structure and rocks of, 266, 
733. 
craters of Koloa on, 271. 
coral formations, 275. 
general conclusions of, 278. 
relation of the eastern shore ridge, to 
the island, 279, 284. 
elevation of, 408. 
Kawehe Island, 61, 74. 
Keeling’s Island, 37. 
Kelley, E. G., on Kilauea in 1888, 187. 
Kilauea, account of, 171. 
map-sketch of, 173. 
section of, 174. 
height of, 166. 
without scoria on its walls, 174, 180, 
224, 
movement to southwest in the large 
lake, 179, 203, 375. 
temperature of, 205. 
not a solfatara, 205. 
steep slopes of lava, on the descent to, 
179. 
liquidity of lavas, 195, 223, 358. 
quiet mode of eruption, 195, 
absence of cinder cones, 198. 
subsidence around, from eruptions, 197. 
eruptions within the crater of, 182. 
not agitated during an eruption at sum- 
mit of Mount Loa, 211, 216. 
eruptions of, 183. 
in 1823, 184, 
in 1832, 184. 
in 1825, C.S. Stewart, 185. 
A. Bishop, 185, 
map of, in 1825, by Lieutenant Mal- 
den, 185. 
in 1829, C. S. Stewart, 186. 
in 1832, after an eruption, J. Good- 
rich, 186. 
in 1834, Douglas, 187. 
in 1838, Chase and Parker, 187, 
Strzelecki, 188, 
INDEX. 
Kilauea, in 1839, Shepherd, 188. 
in 1840, 188. 
amount of lavas ejected in 1840, 191. 
ibid., in 1823, 196. 
eruption of, in 1840, took place through 
fissures, 196. 
since 1840, 193. 
frequency of eruptions of, 198. 
isolation of volcanic forces, 198, 218. 
phases of volcanic action in, 222. 
probable origin of, and early condition, 
224, 
sulphur banks of, 180. 
rocks and minerals of, 181, 198. 
siliceous incrustations from decompos- 
ing lavas of, 181, 201. 
compared to Val del Bove, 381. 
King, height of Mount Loa, 156. 
Kingsmill Islands, map and descriptions of, 
90>. 1 aio: 
elevations among, 409. 
arrangement of islands, 417. 
Kohala Ridge, Hawaii, 168, 216, 284. 
Kotzebue, height of Mounts Loa and Kea, 
156, 157. 
coral mud at the Marshall Islands, 63. 
water at the Marshall Islands, 77. 
logs floated to the Marshall Isiands, 
ides 
Kuria, 52, 56, 410. 
Ladrones, elevations among, 410. 
arrangement of islands, 16, 418, 419. 
evidences of subsidence about, 398. 
reefs of, 139. 
sketch of Assumption Island, 354. 
Lagoons of atolls, 33, 48, 68, 114, 180. 
Lakes, covered with floating vegetation, in 
Luzon and India, 521, 522, 541. 
Lake, called Laguna de Bay, island of 
Luzon, 541. 
Lakes in craters, 218, 320, 326. 
Laminated basalt, Upolu, 316. 
trachyte, 650. 
Lamination, oblique, in Sydney sandstone, 
462. 
ibid., origin of, 528. 
