| Show wm FROM EXCHANGES 1 k THE VOLCANO of manna mauna loa as we learn from the honolulu Hon olula olala of march 17 was still active and as much if not more of an object of interest as at the mhd time of our last 4 account the scene of eruption is visited al mevit dally ally bya by adventurous parties both male some of whom barely escape with rith others encounter severe bevere hardships 4 lucli as su frering suffering extreme thirst for two or hiel J ays cays while traveling over clinkers boots worn to alters fitters and the blied blood be fhe last day marking their track over laita 11 1 A volcanic crusade the jih dih says tat mr vaudry an traveler vela veix t to visit the new craters and from the course he intended to take it was waa thought lh ought be had got between the new and iid ild flows of lava which thich would render reader bib bis critical manfra alft a loa has several craters some of which have been developed since the com corn M ament e nt 0 of f tse ertl erti eru pilon atlon kilauea is that from which the vast columns of burning lava and aria immense boulders are thrown to buchan buch such an incredible height later and aad impre accurate I 1 a aits say from two h hundred and fiat y to five abdu bundred hundred 4 ed feet this crater lies several milea miles to the eastward from the volcano of mauna matina loa proper anti and it would seem is but remote ly y connected with the shaft that is now sending out lava in the th central craters of mauna is ia not thrown up in massive columns but ris nto ng the mouth of the crater and alid overflowing pours its ita overwhelming torrent of hot lava into he se aOfter beay seay after flowing about thirty eight miles through a district utterly dev devastey asted by its I 1 ravages boynt strzelecki kt a k polish nobleman kealii who visited the frateroli crate crater noll roli of Kilau eilau kilauea eil eol in 1838 says mays that 41 having baving visited most of the european and ana american volcanoes I 1 find the greatest of them inferior io 0 o kilauea crater in intensity grandeur and extent or area but the present eru tru eruption pilon ia Is said to excel that of any previous eruption on the sandwich islands the same traveler in hla hia attempt to describe that erupts eruption on thus thua continues I 1 S 0 alere does the solution ot of the great ot of tires fires by sir n umphrey davy davys rene e a more pl pal pame rame illustration than hw her the acas news of the water to the ignited masses of taso these minerals mineral of alkaline and 4 arthy basest by which tha thap that great philosopher explained the of volcanic bol Tol canic cadic fires is displayed here hero lo 10 most r moet most awful effects II 11 la Is atily to those million I 1 11 e teats veat all around the crater through which the bug aug superabundance euger euper rabun abundance dance of steam escapes to the millions luil lull tiona llona of fissures through which the sulphurous and sulli buric acids liberate from beneath that thai the preservation of hawaii from utter destruction by thie itie force of steam and gase ease can be ascribed kilauea is at an elevation of feet above tb the level levei of the sea while some of the more central cragere are arh about feet above the sea sealevel level levei from an account published in the honolulu raiser of march ko 10 giving b a history of varl various eruptions of f volcano maunaloa Mann maun aLoa on the island of hawaii I 1 is justly regarded as one remarkable in the world rising di directly reci reel ly from the sea in one stupendous mount to nhe ahe distance of some feet nearly neatly three miles the volcanoes of cotopaxa cotopaxi a p e ak of thiAn dea dei ih Equador which rises ve the level of the sea and pet I 1 1 which rises some feet are counted among the most remarkable but bu t these having their bases on elevated table lanca jn za vilty show a height 0 conly only odly eight or nine bausand feet t on ott tire island of hawaii there are or have been t three bree large volcanoes mauna loa diana riana kea at which it is 1 1 itt frequent action the eighteenth A al OW century nanna manna kea and Hua nua lalai are re wv extinct magda a loa is IL le e onry onri vol baikow carnow cai cat now naw KOW active on hawaii 1 was bastin actton about sixty it was first ascended bv a party from vers verg in 1701 1 at its last eruption it poured oal a volume voli volt neof of overran a wide extein emte t of country e e me beveral several vl villages lages fiell ponds pona and anc a ou OW finally expanding in the ocelle oce ale aae where it filled up an ex deive ci eive bay mal tri trl lle ile in length and f firm rw l a new headd several miles beyond the oid old tennin atte atts of the coast imperl im fert ferl P lioba woman and her ber child by one ofie of these last eri exi erelong afons rions at the bise of the mountain 1 then as thre thore is diw small email vil vii villas lacs of filhes gen men along tio tie cast though the eruption began in the ab nb nh bt fary pry iary ary a the tie tle inhabitants bahi babi tants kila escaped th in ce la lal qty oty aty oily te ie h ii ilau liay i was wag awaken awakened fd by the bidini noise of the t molten mass masi as it urged onward con COQ curnin g e everything very thing before it that was destructible the thi cause of the nolda noida and in hla hia consternation fled barely escaping leavin leaving his hia wife and child in the house bouse asleep and aad before the woman could be awa awakened ik e ned the lava had encircled the house bouse to attempt to cross the fiery stream would be instant death the hut but was soon in flames the woman with her child in her arms sought refuge in a tree which in a few minutes with the woman and child was hurled into the burning torrent and utterly consumed mr jarves says that the mountain yet looks gloomily as if boding some new disaster prof dana off of the fhe heus beUS U S exploring expedition gives an account of several early eruptions of 0 kilauea Kilau ea ile he bays says 7 che the first farat eruption erupt toi of kilauea Kilau ea of which tradition gives any ny deti definite alte know knowledge tedge occurred about the year 1789 during the wars and anni concu st 4 of kamehameha 1 I it took between kalawa kalaw 4 and the sea la in a southeast south east erly direction it Is eam to have hare been accompanied by violent earthquakes and ani of the earth and an eruption erupts on sf it stones stonas from open assures etwas it was to so violent a aud and 0 d extensive that the heaven were corn lete ly darkened and one lives are buP aup supposed dosed posed to have been lost theainel The alne gine same game Aine eruption is sai bai raid said d to have de destroyed SI troyed a portion apportion of the armyon army of keoua rival of kamehameha 1 eha eba I 1 th the next eruption was in 1823 1923 which is a i thus thull y Mr ElIIs caa A large irie tract of in kan was flooded and the str dream earn when it reached the ibe sea as I 1 am informed by mr chany wog aye pye to eight miles wide the earth Is said fald to have been jent yent in place sand ani ant ahe the lavas were ejected through the figure commencing their couras above ground onne some orne miles south 0 of Kilau kilauea ea there was no visible communication with the thelawar javas lavar of the crater at the time but the fact 0 of their subsiding some hundred feet I 1 with the eruption is 13 satisfactory evidence of r a connection it in june 1832 both kilauea and the summit crater of blauna mauna loa were active prof dana remarks 1 I the only ejection at tm thi time of the lavas of allanea eal rul atlea to the surface of which we w have det dellatte latte laite account oc in tue easl eal wali wall of the th crater A deep fissure was opened in the wall from fraim which streams flowed flawed outs out part back into kilauea down clown tb steep siope slope and anil part across into the old crater which at the time was wag overgrown with wood 22 I 1 Prece preceding dino dint 7 the eruption above alluded toj toi to J there was waa an earthquake which bad rent lib iii in twain the wails walls the crater on the east side from top to bottom the summit crater of mauna manna loa during this thia eruption ejup tion continued burning for two or three weeks the lavas broke out in different places and veri verb vere discharged from BO go many vents that the fires were seen on every side eide of the tha dome and were visible as far as 29 La lahaina balna baina in 1840 on the of may ray according to mr Jar jarves jarvas vaa vea scenes and scenery scene ry a terrible eruption ernp tion of kilauea occurred when the inhabitants ft hilo fully compre comprehended comprehend hen tied cled their condition with an awful burning mountain above them fear seized upon many but happi happl ly the torrent of lava turned in a northeast north ea east erly etly dir direction e i action ani and ip less than four days reached the sea having flowed a distance of 1 forty miles the depth of the torrent was wag from twelve of I 1 two hundred feet jarves writes that I 1 to the B windward tha the th running lava cound could be approached near enough for abb e who wha visited it to thrust long pole into the liquefied rock and draw orth forth spec linens on the leeward ide ide owing to the intensity of 0 the heat beat the minious n ismons and deadly vapors and gasses with walh the tir lir fr was impregnated mhd the showers of hoi hot ashes sand band and nd cinders which were constantly all vege rege for many miles was wa destroyed de troed and the inhabitants tu to flee with the greatest grea test EXpedit expedition lon ion 1 fortunately however ba wever the district through which the flavil passed pissed was vas sparsely sely bely populated and the loss was wag confined to a few small huts huta and a multitude of swine awine and poultry try the color of the mass mast T while white flow ing wag waa of deepest crimson wilem when more active it gore and fresh posh filow violently stirred to together 11 atger 11 such stich wa wab was a the thie brilliancy of 1 I the light fr from this volcanic mass that at hilo and places forty miles distant the finest print nt could be lye read real at midnight pa the same writer says that this noontide noon tide brightness converting night dight into d day ay prevailed over all E cast ast dst hawaii for ten weeks and is represent erl eft by eyewitnesses eye witnesses to have bean been a spectacle ff f assed sublimity it was like the tle e elre eire re cf a blazing furnace and was waa seen for 11 r i ta res of ahin abin ab indred ired miles milpa at sea alfr i P r e er r pi plon 0 n t ccok v 0 k p placa la c e i ri J n n ary aty 18 13 brez bres iMag out at the tha summit of mauna manna loa in two streams at an elevation of nearly feet one of the streams was twenty give fire or theirly thiry miles wide aud and averam ang ng a m anile 1 and a half in wd h oi oa the norh nonh side bide bue cf mauna manna loa another I 1 eruption broke ott olt in february 1852 the rumbling of which was haard baard forty miles mr J ful fuller I 1 er in in an account of it atys jat tat t at ci i cli ri i on K ieh irh an rc ilant lar lah 1 n T ircy ir cr el ei an i alert TI BI li n lii ill tl its lik til ill 5 hii K g i i i in ai nt at m it t of f u in agust august 1855 1865 near the summit of manna mauna loa was w as another adoth er cr arup upion ion inn an acc abc account aunt cf of which was printed in the of july 24 1856 1836 from which we e extract the following omitting the previous detail of the journey of an exploring party who after traveling four or five day days mostly aly through a rough and blackened volcanic region a arrived I 1 at the border of the liquid steam cewe we the vents tents with abey we and looking down their fiery throats we heard beard the tha internal surging na ana saw the mad mail ru hinga of the great emten strewn n aimed limed used to a white heat beat the angle of rie ileac cont nt was from 3 to 25 23 and we judged the velocity to le ie forty jorty miles an hour bour the maddening nang stream seemed to be hurrying on as all if it on from the eternal to execute a work of wrath and desol desolation a t ton in n t the be realms below they tr traveled for miles on the arched beilin ceiling of this flery fiery canal with the fearful internal burning stream madly rushing beneath eath them finally they reached the summit and found theu thet themselves selves standing 11 on the craggy and amok ing creat crest pa here liehe they are lost in wonder says the I 1 ger ser tats athis was the high toun foun fountains taini of eruption dle die great chimney whose goes down immeasurable depths into those fearful realms minis where walla unan laan d eyd eyo never pene proe 1 traced and where h he e cannot look live I 1 they felt felty then if before their insignificance ance and 9 benee sense of humility came over them they vele mere 11 atoms in creation obscured b ke startled by infernal his sings aruid abuid those wild wonders whose awful displays of power had scattered such a tempest of fiery hail bail and raised such a raging sea tea of molten rocks on those everlasting hills 0 this eruption lasted about thirteen months threw throw out quantifies guanti les leb ies of olf lava probably never surpassed during the residence of whites on orl those islands and most propitiously ceased when the overwhelming tide of lava was within six or seven megs males of hilo the area covered hy by the consuming liquid is is said to have exceeded three hundred square papare miles conc concerning i arning the present eruption which commenced jan 23 1859 1839 the advertiser bays says aln ain in ala gran grau grandeur deur and beauty no eruption within the mem or of 0 man now living can compare with ilir the present it irom jiom moa molt viretus on unes does in the n like ilke manner in which the lava Is ejected from froin the crater to a i height M beobet jeet I 1 il is to seldom that eruptions a great flow cow of iava lava wilh with such a lofty 11 1 1 sp 1 Durhl beday day time the light from the crater iier tier is scarcely perceptible but in the night the scene is at once grand and terrific A behiry dense denie column of smoke ristp nise rise con eon usually from frow tha the irater crater to a height of cf perhaps ten thousand feet boverini boveri nl over fhe fw ir IT land of hawaii and indeed wood all the islands and the trade wind lulls settles down obstructing ting the view the course of the lava stream across a plain is thus described billere was a stream of lava rolling over the plain plainy twenty or twenty tw enty five feet in height bright alid anil an eighth rf of a mile in width though its lt width abed a great deal sometimes broader and anil sometimes narrower it was wab wa in fact tact a aniss m IBS krs or pile of 0 red hot stones a pile of coals chali of fire borne along alon aion by buy the more liquid lava As it moved slowly along siong large red boulders w wr euid till roll down the gides sides breaking into a thousand smail small stones stunes crushing and anil burning the treesa trees beiting noel roel ilog the ibe ht rucee and arid destro destroying ying ving everything which lay in the track 2 irhe ithe stream reached the ocean as we have before related where the scene assumed a clar ciar character ch acter of terrific and grandeur the attempts a description ethe the mightiest of earths magazines of fire poured forth its lt burning billows to meet the mightiest of oceans for two core score miles it came rolling tumbling swelling forward ao ku awful agent of death hocks rocks melted like wax w ax in its patha forests crackled crac erac kled and blazed bene Us its fervent vent heat the very hills were thein their primeval beds and sank fianu beneath its tide or were born hot onward by ita its waves the tho works world of man wera were to it but as a scroll in the flames nature shrivelled shrivel led and trembled |
