THROUGH HAWAII. 
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hollow cone over one vast furnace, situated in the 
heart of a stupendous submarine mountain, rising 
from the bottom of the sea; or possibly the fires may 
rage with augmented force beneath the bed of the 
ocean, rearing through the superincumbent weight of 
water the base of Hawaii, and, at the same time, form¬ 
ing a pyramidal funnel from the furnace to the atmo¬ 
sphere. 
