Title: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
Identifier: acs9793.0002.004.umich.edu
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Subjects: Natural history; Ethnology
Publisher: Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
Contributing Library: University of Michigan
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Michigan

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Lydgate^s Survey of Mokuaiveoweo, 123 and in some places the openings are large enough to bathe in. We reached the horses, ate some lunch, and started down at 2 p.m., well paid for our great exertion. September ^7, i8y^. T. Spencer.—Crater active, flowing all night toward the Volcano House. January //, 18J4., J. E. Chamberlain.—Visited the crater fourteen years ago. The crater has filled up one-half. The two craters, 1859 and 1874, are almost totally unlike. March 24, 18J4.. L. M. C.—The south lake has been gradually filling up until last night, when it overflowed. At eight o'clock the whole of the edge of the lake facing this house was alight with the flowing lava. A sudden change in the weather has accompanied this outbreak—cold wind without rain ; thermometer 42°. Ju7ie 9, i8j4, Frank Thompson.—The lava has been flowing from the open lake all day.
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:t.m I I n 11 ^c^le lOOO ft --^iTtcK IMG. 73. SURVEY OI^ MOKUAWEOWEO BY J. M. I.YDGATE. June 24, r8j4, John M. Lydgate.—The plan of the crater of Mokuaweoweo (Fig. 73) is from actual survey by triangulation. A base of 1876 feet was measured on the eastern side and from this, using a seven inch Queen transit, some twenty points were fixed indicative of the shape, topography, etc of the crater. Its greatest length including the basin at the north end is 17,000 feet, or about, 3.2 miles; excluding this it is 15,000 feet; its greatest breadth is 8600 feet or about 1.7 miles; its greatest depth 1050 feet. The floor, however, is continually rising owing to repeated overflows, and the lake is about 500 feet in diameter, and at the time of our visit was quite active, more so than 1 have ever seen Kilauea. /uly 8 i8j4. D. H. Hitchcock.—Volcano is very active. Crater filling up with new lava, but evidently sinking more and more as a whole. Halemaumau half the height of the lower or southern bank. Mokuaweoweo brilliant last evening. July 10, 1874. G.(Gilman)—At 7.30 this evening, two sharp, quick shocks of earthquake were felt here,'—an interval of about three minutes between them. The new flow begun last night seems to be gaining, a large portion of the central basin being alight with the flowing lava. (501)

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