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resumed his journey towards the summit. At mid-night he saw the snow about three miles distant, pro-ceeded towards the place, and reached it about oneo’clock on the morning of the 26th. The snow wasfrozen over, and the thermometer stood at 27 °. Henow directed his steps towards a neighbouring peak,which appeared one of the highest; but when he hadascended it, he saw several others still higher. Heproceeded towards one, which looked higher than therest, and bore N. e. from the place where he was. Onreaching the summit of this second peak, he discovereda heap of stones, probably erected by some formervisitor. From this peak Mouna-Ifoa bore south bywest, Mouna-IIuararai west by south, and the islandof Maui N. w. The several hills or peaks on the sum-mit of Mouna-Kea seemed composed entirely of vol-canic matter, principally cinders, pumice, and sand.Mr. Goodrich did not discover apertures or craters oneither of the summits he visited ; probably there is alarge crater somewhere adjacent, from which the scoria,sand, and pumice, have been thrown out. The wholeof the summit was not covered with snow, there wereonly frequent patches, apparently several miles in ex-tent, over which the snow was about eight inches or afoot in thickness. The ocean to the east and west wasvisible ; but the high land on the north and south pre-vented its being seen in those directions.

Mr. Goodrich commenced his descent about threeo’clock, and after travelling over large beds of sandand cinders, into which he sunk more than ankle deepat every step, he reached about sun-rise the placewhere he had slept the preceding evening. The descentin several places, especially over the snow, was steep