another lake will be formed, and in time
other terraces; but it is hardly within the range of probability that
the beauty of the lost terraces will ever be paralleled.

In this eruption, as usual, we find the earthquake preceding the
volcanic outburst. New Zealand, like the Philippines, Java and the
Japanese Islands, is situated over a great earth-fissure or line of
weakness. Subsidence or dislocation from tensile strain of the crust
took place, and the influx of water to new regions of heated strata
may have developed the explosive force. The earthquake and the volcano
worked together here, as they frequently do, unfortunately in this case
destroying one of the most beautiful scenes on the surface of the globe.

THE ANTARCTIC VOLCANOES

Much further south, on the frozen shore of Victoria Land in the
Antarctic regions, Sir James Ross, in 1841, sailing in his discovery
ships the Erebus and Terror, discovered two great volcanic mountains,
which he named after those two vessels. Mount Erebus is continually
covered, from top to bottom, with snow and glaciers. The mountain is
about 12,000 feet high, and although the snow reaches to the very edge
of the crater, there rise continually from the summit immense volumes of
volcanic fumes, illuminated by the glare of glowing lava beneath them.
The vapors ascend to an estimated height of 2,200 feet above the top of
the mountain.

CHAPTER XXV.

The Wonderful Hawaiian Craters and Kilauea's Lake of Fire.

In the central region of the North Pacific Ocean lies the archipelago
formerly known as the Sandwich Islands, now collectively designated as
Hawaii. The people of the United States should be specially interested
in this island group, for it has become one of our possessions, an
outlying Territory of our growing Republic, and in making it part of
our national domain we have not alone extended our dominion far over the
seas, but have added to the many marvels of nature within our land one
of the chief wonders of the world, the stupendous Hawaiian
volcanoes, before whose grandeur many of more ancient fame sink into
insignificance.

THE ISLAND OF HAWAII

The Island of Hawaii, the principal island of the group, we may safely
say contains the most enormous volcano of the earth. Indeed, the whole
island, which is 4000 square miles in extent, may be regarded as of
volcanic origin. It contains four volcanic mountains--Kohola, Hualalia,
Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. The two l