Polynesian Researches by William Ellis

Author:William Ellis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0-8048-0476-1
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

"Mr. Goodrich and myself visited the volcano again, and, with a line, measured the upper edge of the crater, and found it to be seven miles and a half in circumference. "We then descended, and measured the side of the ledge, and satisfied ourselves that, at the depth of five or six hundred feet, the circumference is at least five miles and a half. We did not get the exact depth of it, but judge it not less than one thousand feet. We had good opportunities for forming a judgment."-In a letter to professor Silliman, of New Haven, Mr. Goodrich corroborates the above, and states also, that he walked across the bottom, where the lava was hard, the surface of which, though apparently smooth as seen from the top, was raised in hills of sunk in valleys; that dense sulphureous fumes and gases, very suffocating, some of them resembling muriatic gas, ascended from almost all parts of the bottom, making in their escape a 'tremendous roaring, like the discharge of steam from the boiler of a steam engine at one place the florid lava was boiling like a fountain, and spouting up lava forty or fifty feet into the air.—Philosophical Magazine for September, 1826.

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