Show u v Odd Shapes Taken n by Lava From Mauna Loa e on the Island of Hawaii I ns as s shigh high as us Vesuvius and unU twice as wide wide lies lIe 32 30 I miles from the sea aln In n a mountain moun noun tain tamn ranee ronge range n wherein are ate three d de dead ud d volcanoes and one ono partially alive Uve This last Mauna Lou Lon sends front from i time 1 1 to time stream streams of lava J down w it Its slopes Some Slime years ago three str burst forth from from th the sides sUei of l this three fourth rth of a a m l mile tro from Jor the I chief city of ot the ille Island There There have e been several outbreaks of ot Kilauea In the last century lu In 1840 1810 there was wasa wasa wasa a a brilliant eruption of t lava the light of Ot f which It was reported could be seen a hundred miles miles' awny l' l Wh Where r i the Je lava flowed through the forest I forest It left lett curious relics In the shape of ot lava arches bridges and great vases cases These a vases es were formed by the lava piling Itself about some som lofty tree tree trunk burning away awny the I wood within and killing the upper part of ot of the tree In the course of ot time seeds In tn n the tile open top tilled with decaying bark until now there thera Is a gigantic lava Inva vase hol holding ferns Jerns terns and towers flowers and vines sines s. s it I |