The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-23

others have led quest the existence or p.r-
haps rather to consider which have COVE ,oa
the discharge Of duid rock from their sphonc or az
mon hydrostatic principles
If the application of probabilities based on the -
observed by myself IN K;laeea should be made 10
phenomena to which Professor Daoa has referred ana
which are familiar to every physicist and ogst, ~
dfhculties III their explanation would imme iiatey
nish. Indeed, such set Of facts only ne
stood and explained the observations made " n,
writer in the great lri0nc field OF Klanea. a
doubt, channels conduit II ragnlded diners,
thread that whole volcanic locality, and the Ia
thin water from its ncandesesnce, PUSHES up from ha
central fires OF the globe and flows in rapk and more oR
less steady throughout great b,errau
arteries But when from any cause or partial or com
plete obstruction 10 this current IA any OF -
conduits takes place, ady namicalagent opht
to bear the weakest part OF the ROCKY Easement,
and volcanic eruption is the consequence SnfS
eruption might be preceded attended with
and commissions of the earth known by the usual
name of earthquake they might MOT be,
according thickness Of the the rupturng
conduit the operation OF force producing such
suit the laws controlling which are yet involved my
terry BY the application OF this discovery, and Of pin
cples growing ont OF II, multitude Of pluonc phenone-
ma, now not well understood, may be made more plain,
and by further study be brought wholly within the
range OF absolute knowledge II IL mere than probable
that the great class OF phenomena called earthquakes
may often be result Of the rupture OF these channels as
greater less depths below the surface of the earth,
channels Of inconceyaby vast dimensions along which
may he rolling tides OF liquid rock, forced through them
by unknown forces acting from the central regions Of the
planet any obstructt TO watch, from the meeting
Of counter currents must give rise local dynamical
agencies whose eruptiSe energy would be wholly
be. The subterraneln sounds which have often heard
IN the territory OF Gex.0 around Acapulco
which heard or less in all volcanic countries,
may be accounted for in the manner. Ii
Is only TO contemplate the existence OF condcits
OF lava similar 10 tn use which observed 10 Kanea eri
aTgng In magnitude in proportion to the size OF the cra1
ers which have been elevated some point OF their
divergent and widely separated horizontal courses
the greatest mysteries which have been connected with
subterranean phenomena dispeed. These couatess
conduits must left in the cooling OF ito
planet and through them IL playing the plutonio
fluid rising from the central pcandescence OF the gobS
and returning again. except when meeting with obstruts
ttopc fka 0f w m a
observable throughout it's surface Indeed IL
is than probablet is new
ones formed fropA time to time for where observa-
items might those Of dimensions fractures OF
the crust alone would and dykes OF various sorts
OF gneous rock would be consequence, and beneath the
cooling foundations Of these dykes new channels would
naturally be found.
by facts drawn from every department of the volcanic
and geognostyc observation anoknowledge; and thenew
views and doctrines herein embraced might be applied
only the elevation Of isolated craters but all linear
archpelagos Of volcano or non volcanic characer-au
linear groups Of craters form hils-ai mountain cnsins,
however extensive including the Andes and every
other cordera the globe The dyoramica operations
OF fluid rock in motion will naturally vary intensity
and amount and while ali Visible results Of is action on
the Of the eartb from chain Of lava twenty
feet height in Kianea that grand cham Of Mexican
volcanoes commencing with Orizaba aud ending with
Jerullo nineteenth parallel OF northern latitude
Of one type compelled TO conclude that all must
spring from displays OF similar forms of physical force
The molten rocks were observed by my friends Revl
Mr.. Sessions OF Albany and Frederick Haws Esq, III
through conduIts leading to from cones
kilanea, rimar to the empty onss which examined IA
February last and which have described in Tons paper
Mr. Haws described the rapidty Of the lava current ia
spot to be equal TO twenty miles an hour The Rev.
Titus Coan Of Ho, informed me that when he looked into
the the summit of Mauna LOa the lava, -
fluid as water and at a while heat running 1t rate
Of forty miles hour IN the former the coDduts
per eight ten feet In diameter in the latter
twas probably hve hundred. On the 18th Fob, 1852,
stream OF lava suddenly burst from the summit OF
Mama Ioa, about two miles from the recent
crater, and Mr.. Coan informed that for ten days
the column 600 feet in breadth and rose 900
feet In height Who will doubt hereafter the rapid mo-
ton and momentum of fluid rock in subtcrranean tubes
Of various dametersy These conduts vary in from
those Kilanea TO tiat those which erie or1lna.
popoc atapetl, Tuxtla aud cona aud which Opened
remarkably in September 1882 to produce tae ondcr-
| full volcano OF Jorullo.
| Perhaps enough lad been said this subject 10
awaken the OF geooris 10 contempt .iioDs.
The rapid motion Of fluid rock through conduts Of
dimensions lying at different depths In the earth's
crust, and having less horizontal COURSES aud
apparently extending for many hundred miles In length,
great fact which invites inve alton to unfold al 3
interesting attendant pl enomena and contingencies That
the motions exist there be DOUBT Their origin,
the which originated and continue them,
buried profoundly among hthe secrets Ct the primor-
dial forces but by aent and severe research they ray
hereafter be discovered added 10 present
velloua store Of absolute knowledge.