The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-06


that they ara. at all of recent growth
or appearance. The expression is
comparative. There are two active
| volcanoes on the Island of Hawaii
which are old and we'll recognized. tht
central craters of which are known
as Mokuaweoweo' and Kilauea. The
latter is evidently an offshoot of the
| former. Kilauea is a child of Mauna
Loa, and not yet entirely independent
of it's parent. Sympathetic action is
| still often manifest between the erup-
| tions of the two volcanoes. An an
| cient fissure seems to have extended
| solid crust from the earlier to the
! later center of eruption, and that ifs
| sure is not yet completely sealed.
| In like manner, and at similar dis
tances in opposite directions, each of
| these known volcanoes has a, child of
| it's own, still united to it's parent, and
yet often exhibiting a remarkable de-
gree of independent activity. These
[ lNO oIISI1OOlS nave 1lOI dlldlIlSu
pendence. Indeed, they have hitherto
failed of recognition as distinct centers
of volcanic activity, their immense
forcible eruptions having been attrib-
uted entirely to their distant parent
craters. But the time seems to the
present writer to have arrived, when
these two promising and vigorous chill
dren of the Plutonic or Pele family,
should receive an acknowledgment of
their actual distinct personalities as
volcanoes of true breed and genuine
forcefulness.
The locations of these two volcanic
centers are respectively, on the south
west in Kahuku, whence issued the two
great lava floods of 1868 and 1887, and
in Eastern Puma, whence in %S40
great flood of lava rushed eight miles
these centers of activity had been at
work for long antecedent periods and
each had added many hundreds of
square miles to the areas of their re-
spective districts, creating entirely new
contours to the shores of Eastern Pu-
ma and Southwest Kau, and Immensely
enlarging the Island in those two di-
rectionS.
This article maintains that those two
localities have for long period been
occupied as centers of eruptive activ-
ity. in a large degree segregated from
and independent of the older neighbor-
ing volcanoes with which they are still
in some degree associated. AS Off
shoots respectively of Mauna Loa and
of Kilauea, they are in process OF
growing into themselves absolutely in
dependent volcanoes
This opinion is partially derived from
the observation of Mr.. w. Lowthian
Green. that the average distance of
tho volcanoes of Hawaii Island and
of the Maui group are from 20 to %
miles apart, and that they lie in APP
northwest and southeast
lines. with transverse lines from north |
east TO southwest. An inspection, for |
example. of the map of the Maui group |
shows the former line consisting of |
East NoIokai West Maui, and East |
Mani each with its smaller westerly |
mate of West Molokai. Lanai, and
Kahoolae, all at the average distances
All these, prior to later sub |
sidences, probably once constituted |
single large island of an area like that |
of Hawaii.
The five volcanic centers on Hawaii, |
viz: Kohala, Mauna kea, Mauna Loa' |
Hnalalai. and Kilauea, follow the same |
General arrangement, in accord with |
which younger volcanoes would be due |
TO appear in the two iocahtles moi
Gated. Their distance ah'r'- rs ''rA'tV