Identifier: sketcherstourrou00elwe (find matches)
Title: A sketcher's tour round the world
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Elwes, Robert Hullmandel & Walton
Subjects: Voyages around the world Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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I never shall forgetthe view which then presented itself, and feel that it is quiteimpossible to describe such an extraordinary scene. The crater was like a huge oblong valley, surroundedwith rugged mountains. It was upwards of thirty miles incircumference, and its floor was 2000 feet deep from theridge on which we stood. There were two great openings,one towards the east, the other to the north-west, about tenmiles distant from each other. The floor was tolerably level,sloping at one end towards the north-west opening, and wascomposed of different lava streams, which had run out theretowards the sea. Scattered about on this black floor weretwelve or thirteen cones of a red or yellow ochre colour, manyperfectly circular, with deep funnel-shaped craters in theirsummits. Some were broken down at the side, nearly alwayson the north-east. The largest must have been at least400 feet high. Mr. Gower had on a former visit descendedinto the crater, and ascended this large cone, which he said
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■0- a A 1 I g SUNSET ON THE MOUNTAIN. 215 was the hardest climb he had ever had in his life; for, likethe cone of Vesuvius, it was wholly composed of loose sandand ashes, and gave way at every step. The sun declining,purple shadows from the ridge on which we stood now creptgradually over the bottom of the crater; but the red conesstill caught the light on their summits, and deepened incolour as the sun descended, while their bases and funnel-shaped craters took the purple shade. It was a strangesight, A dungeon horrible on all sides round,As one great furnace. The clouds to the north, which were stretched out farbelow us, now began to drift in at the opening of the crater,and were illuminated by a small rainbow. Over the cloudsto the south-east appeared the two snowy summits of Hawaii,Mouna Loa and Mouna Kea. The wind rushed out of thecrater with great force, and was so cold, that we could hardlystand before it; so after a hurried sketch, we again descendedto our cave. The name of t

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