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and found the crater quiet, but vapors issuing from largefissures.

Kilauea was moderately active during the period of erup-tion, rather increasing in activity with its progress, butwithout evincing special disturbance or sympathy. 1

In July, 1888, going from Ainapo to the source of the erup-tion of 1887, in Kahuku , about six thousand feet above thesea-level, Rev. E. P. Baker passed through regions of woodsand grass, and saw seven running streams and three or fourponds of water. There had been heavy rains. The fissureof 1887, about four hundred feet above the place of outflow,was still giving out vapors. No deep crater marked theplace of discharge. 2

1887, December 29.—A letter from Mr. J. S. Emerson,dated Kohala, Hawaii , December 29, states that the view of thesummit of Loa from that place indicates activity in MountLoa . “ Volumes of smoke and steam have been pouring outof the summit crater, but no glow or reflection of fire hasbeen observed. . . . The summit is now heavily coated withsnow.” Another letter of April states that on March 29,1888, the signs of activity at the summit had disappeared ;the exact time of their cessation was probably early inFebruary.

1888, July 18. — The summit was visited at this date byPresident W. C. Merritt and Rev. E. P. Baker. 3 The rangeof the thermometer for the day was: At noon, 62° F.; atseven o’clock in the evening, 40° F. ; at eleven o’clock atnight, 30° F. ; at daybreak, 26° F. Mr. Merritt states thatin the central pit of Mokuaweoweo, at bottom, a small cinder-cone was found not far from the eastern wall, and just south-

1 The above is from the “ Pacific Commercial Advertiser and Hawaiian . Gazette l:of Honolulu ; American Journal of Science, 1887, xxxiii. 310.

2 Baker, American Journal of Science, 1889, xxxvii. 53.

3 Ibid., 1889, xxxvii. 51, 52.