Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-05-13
ELECTIONS
From The Washington Globe,

1 lt KIN VI . AAI M VI oIhEFIIth i, y
Young Polander who wasa yislter OF ilts cry some
two years since, has moi faded from The remembrance
of our fashionable circles. Those ladies IN " HON It's
owner was, like The Russian attaches, . faithful assis-
tani in then affairs TO become adopts in the " Ma.
~znuike," cannot have ceased to iecollect il with
grateful pleasure. From a Recently received mum
her OF the Honolulu Gazette, published in October, IT
appears hat The polish stranger was then on board
II. D. NJ shin Fly, in the Pacific Ocean, and had
visited the volcano of kirauea. HIS account Of The
visit we place 10 our columns to-day, taken from the
Gazette Of Honolulu, Oahu, and published from the
IlaHsiian SPECTATOR.
CRATER OF k1RAUEA, HAWAII.
SANDWICH ISLAND.
The following gIaphic sketch has kindly been fun
nished hy Count Sir2elecki, a Polish nohleman and
scientific n%avcile,, who has tet some lime resided in
,he United States and in heNico, and Is now visit.
ing various portions Of he Pacific in II. b. NJ. ship
Fly:
My DIAN SIR Nourkind request to supply The
valuable publication OF the Spectator, with an ac-
count Of my visit 10 the volcano Of kifauca on Hawai-,
boll pains aud natiers nc: for regret much lhatn,y
limited stay here, The daily current and accnnulating
objects OF new and Interesting inquiries, render any
tueumstaHtial description Of II really impossible 10
me-. A few facts, and fewer observations, which a
hasiy aud rough sketch brings forth, is all am able
ior the momeut To supply YOU with. | cannot even
attempt to give YOU the slightest idea Of The impress
sions which the awful sublimity OF tho volcano pro
duced upon my imagination; that part of our beng
does not yield as easily a. memory - does not re.
produce sensation; the rapture, the enthusiasm once
gobs by, is lost forever.
What | remember, and long shall reoolleci, as
showing the mighty influence OF mighty oh ects upon
me. are the difficulties | had 10 Struggle with before
my eye could be torn away from the idle vacant but
extatiC gazing with winch ] regarded the great whole,
down to the analytical part of tho wondrous and
unparalleled scene before me. ] saw unparalleled, be
cause, having visited most OF the European and
American volcanoes, | find The greatest of them inie-
fior TO kifauea crater IN intensity, grandeur aud ex-
tent ofarea.
The abrupt and precipitous cliff which forms The
Nm. +. wall OF the cratef-fuund, afiei my repeat
ed observations, 10 be elevated i,l04 feet above The
level Of the sea-nverhangs an era of 3 $50 900
square yards OF hal-cooled scoria, sunk 10 the death
OF 800 yards, and containing more than 32s. 900
square yards OF couvulsed torrents OF eanhs IN ~
ncous fusion. aud gaseous fluids, constantly eferyes.
eng, boiling, spontug. rolling in all directions, like
waves OF a disturbed sea. violently beating the edge
OF the caldrons like an Infatuated surf, anu ike SUIT
spreading ell mound ITS spray in The form of Camilla
~ glass, which fills the air and adheres in a nak and
pendulous form 10 the distorted aud broken masses
of the lava, all around; five caldions, each of about
$500 square yards, almost at the level Of he great
area, and containing only the twelfth part of the red
liquid The sixth caldron is encircled by a wall of
accumulated scoria of fifty yards high. forming the
s. S. w. point-the ale nau ndu OF the natives, TO
which the bones OF the former high chiefs were CON
sigped-ihe sacrifices TO the goddess Pele offered
the abysses, the caldton Of caldrons-exhibitinp the
most frighiful area Of about 300. 600 SQUIRE wards
bubbling red hot lava-clanging necessarily its level
sometime rolling the long eufled waves with bro
ken masses oil cooled crust TO one side of the borri-
BILE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., as il they had made a
mistake, turning them back with spoutlng fury, and
a subiefraueous, terrific noise, of a sound more infer.
nal than earthly; around are blocks of lava, scoria,
siags oil every description and combination, here ell
esaled, by the endless number Of suprrimposed Law
ers' IN perpendicular walls of 1000 feet high-therc
torn asunder, dispersed, crack ed or ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
where terror, couvulslon-migb,y engine or na,u,e-
and notlingness Of man
No where does the solution OF The great problem
OIL volcanic hres, by SIR Humphrey Dayy, receive A
more palpable Illustration than here; the access of
,he water to these lenitei masses of minerals of alka
line anu earihy bases, by which that great pbiloso.
phet explained the commissions of yolcanic G,.s i.
displayed here IN most portenious, most awful effects
1t is only 10 those millions of vents all a,ound III.
crater through which the superabaudauce of stean,
escapes" iHe "'liohs oil assures through which
the suipburous and snlphnrlc acid liberate them.
selves from beneath, that the preservation of Hawai-
from utter Destruction, by the expansive force of ste am
and gases, can be ascribed.
The nature Of the volcano, with S uncommonly
intense beat. and SO many wide and easy openinps
IS, TO eject nothing without alteration, aud to sub,
lime every variety Of substance which the concomi-
tants ol ths volcanic fires embrace. Thus, here is
dne rare volcanic glass, in capillary forms. and many
perfect slir'bcauons;the niurlaie oil ammonia in efilore
scence, ohen conchoidal, often in elongated nexahe.
dfals-and IN ons single Instance. even in that rare
form oil a cubic ~cbrysial, thus. the sulphnret of ar
snp'c, both as realgar and %orpiment; the sulphur i,sei
y most beautiful incrustations, chryslalzed in cubic
orunneafed octahedrons; the peiro alnmina,is OF
Ssolia, titsly,) or alkaline s~ulpliaie Of alumine; i'm
betded sometimes 10 argillaceous earth: thus, the
SIN uiar and rare cayernous lava, known hitherto 10
sxttin Iceland Its large iumeisoiions in blisters and
bubbles, form a crust OF the finest gloss 10 an arch OF