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which is usually about 84° on the shore, stood at 
60° in the hut where they slept. 
The singing of the birds in the surrounding 
woods ushering in the early dawn, and the cool 
temperature of the pure mountain air, excited a 
variety of pleasing sensations in the minds of all 
the party, when they awoke in the morning, after 
a comfortable night’s rest. The thermometer, 
when placed outside of the hut, stood at 46°. 
Having united in their morning sacrifice of thanks¬ 
giving to God, and taken a light breakfast, they 
resumed their laborious journey. The road, lying 
through thick underwood and fern, was wet and 
fatiguing for about two miles, when they arrived at 
an ancient stream of lava, about twenty rods wide, 
running in a direction nearly west. Ascending 
the hardened surface of this stream of lava, over 
deep chasms, or large volcanic stones embedded in 
it, for a distance of three or four miles, they reached 
the top of one of the ridges on the western side of 
the mountain. 
As they travelled along, they met with tufts of 
strawberries, and clusters of raspberry bushes, 
loaded with fruit, which, as they were both hungry 
and thirsty, were acceptable. The strawberries 
had rather an insipid taste; the raspberries were 
white and large, frequently an inch in diameter, 
but not so sweet or well-flavoured as those culti¬ 
vated in Europe and America. 
Between nine and ten in the forenoon they 
arrived at a large extinguished crater, about a mile 
in circumference, and apparently four hundred 
feet deep, probably the same that was visited by 
some of Vancouver’s people, in 1792. The sides 
sloped regularly, and at the bottom was a small 
mound, with an aperture in its centre. By the 
