Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-17
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From the Honolulu Advertiser, March 10. 1850
THE VOLCANO OF MAUNA L0A. HAWAII.


Whether we view its hight and immense
size, the beauty and singtilarity of its dome
IKE summit, or the magnitude and length of
It's lava streams the volcano of Mauna Loa.
on Hawaii, is one of the most remarkable in
the world, rising from the sea to an elevation
OF nearly $4,000 feet. In height it is only ex-
ceeded by the active volcanoes of Cotopaxi in
Ecuador (looof feet and that of Popocatapol
IN Mexico 100 feet,l and two or three 9TH
ers i'll Asia and America. All these rise from
elevated table lands and consequently only
show a height of to 5000 feet from their
bases. Mauna Loa, on the contrary, rises in
one stupendous mount directly from the sea.
rev OF our readers are aware that on the
summit OF Mauna Loa exists an enormous era
ter, eXcelled i'll dimensions only by that of
Haleakala, on East Mani This crater is de-
scrlbed by the lamented English traveller,
douglas, who visited it in 1884, and suisse
quehtIy lost his life on the same mountain.
1he circumference of the rim of the crater
as measured by him, is about twenty -four
miles, or eight miles in diameter and its
depth 1910 feet. The bottom of this crater is
rent by terrible chasms, which to all attempts
yet made are untathomable. This crater is
divided into three lesser ones, the northern
OF which, known as Mokuaweoweo has fire.
quenty been in action; the others appear to
have long been quiescent.
on HaIy9ii orc a'o,,i "
Nv perceptible and have neyer heep G,o,y, -
do more serious damage than that of throwing
down stone walls, upsetting milk pans, &c.
he inhabitants of that island have never man.
Tested tbe SLIGHTEST faar from ea,,tbonaIlas
They occur. ON nm AVERAGE siy or night tin1os
a year. though in some wears nearly double
that number have been noticed On the other
islands of this group. excentinc occasionallv ~,
Maui, earthquakes are seldom or never exner.
fenced
OF the three LARGE volcanoes on Hawaii
which were probably in freonent action dnring
the eighteenth century two of them Mann9
Kea and Hualalai are now extinct Annoar.
ances would indicate that fine former ceased
action first. as the lava ON it's sides hear an oId.
er character. OF HnaIalai which was Iast in
action about sixty vears sinca Jorvas cave
"This mountain was ascenaed for tEe fret
time by a party from Vanconver,s vosseIs in
1874 Smoke was then visible At lie ,rroofaS+
elevation. A few years later # nonrod ont
volume of identified rock which oTo,ro,, a ,,,ida
extent of country destroving several ,iIIagns
fish-ponds. and plantations finally exnendin2
itself in the ocean whore II filed mn mn ovton'
sive BAY, twenty miles in length and formed
a new headand several miles beyond the old
termination of the coast The mountain ,o+
looks gloomilv as if brooding somo now dis.
aster."
The natives on Hawaii still narrata to trav.
elers the story of tbe deotb of a woman ond
child. which ocrurred in one Of tba IaSt arm.
lions on HuaaIai The bosa of tho+ n,o,ntai,
had then. as il has now small fsbinp viIJoras
scattered along IFS shore Tho LAST ernnfion
began in the NIGHT and tho natives wero rors-