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or grey, or red, as the materials which the flames had 
wrought on varied 
Not less than fifty cones, of various height, appeared 
below us as the funnels of the various operations going on. 
* The following notice concerning Peli is obligingly furnished by Lieut. 
Charles It. Malden, who conducted the surveying operations while the Blonde 
was at the Sandwich Islands. 
“ The defective state of my mountain barometer prevented me from 
correctly estimating the height of the volcano Peli above the level of the sea. 
Its distance from Byron Bay, in a direct line, is about twenty-eight English 
miles. The ascent, though gradual, is constant; about two feet in a hundred, 
which will give three thousand feet for the total height; the state of the ther¬ 
mometer also corresponds to this altitude. In the night it fell to 52° of Fahren¬ 
heit, the average temperature of the week at the sea-side being 76°. 
“ From the hut at the east extremity of the volcano, the highest peak of 
Mouna Iveah bore, by azimuth compass, N. 36° 30' W. and the centre of 
Mouna Boa S. 85° W. variation 9’ E. 
“ A short base-line was measured, and some of the most conspicuous points 
of the volcano fixed by triangulation, from which it appears that the circum¬ 
ference of the crater is nearly eight miles; the distance from that hut to the 
cliff marked No. 7 in the plan was found to be 8,209 feet, and the angle sub¬ 
tended between the top and bottom of the cliff, 5° 55 '; this will give 932 feet 
perpendicular to the black ledge, to which add 400 feet, the estimated height 
of the black ledge above the bottom of the crater, and there results 1332 for 
the total depth of the crater. I am convinced this measurement is within 100 
feet of the truth.” 
This volcano, which has the name of Peli from the goddess supposed to in¬ 
habit it, is also called by the natives, Kairauea nui, or the greater, and the 
extinguished crater, Kairauea iti, or the little: they are in the district of Kapa- 
pala, and on the boundary line of Kaii and Puna. It must be observed that 
the ancient divisions of all these Islands are numerous, well defined, and care¬ 
fully marked. 
