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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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n the Islands. The cultivatable lands nearest the coast line arelargely converted into sugar plantations of enormous pro-))ortion. lietween these one drives until a gradual transi-tion into Fern-land takes place, where fern-trees and othertropical growth reach giant proportions and together forma jungle land destined to be converted into sugar planta-tions in time. This jungle-land extends to a clearly defined edge ofthat devastated area which surrounds the crater ofKilauea. It is a shattered territory probably si.x squaremiles in area, which consists of loose earth and rock nearthe outer perimeter. Occasionally deep pits of e.xtinctcraters more than 2,000 feet in diameter and over 800 feetdeep are seen. These pits have precipitous sides, denselyovergrown with scrub vegetation. Their level bottomsconstitute the last vestige of chilled lava, forming barrenwastes upon which seekers of fame construct their namesof broken pieces of lava to be read from above. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 65
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66 THE ARCHITECT AXD EX CIS ERR DISTANT \-II:\V OF \()RTKX OF VOLCANO OFKILAlTvA. HAWAII At a distance of about two miles from Kilauea onesees a panorama, which reveals numerous gas and steamfissures over the great area surrounding the volcano, allpaying tribute to and being carried rapidly by the galewhich sweeps the giant mass of gas vapors from thevortex. On occasional calm days these fumes rise in a verti-cally straight shaft to a height of a mile or two; then thevortex drags the gas and steam vapors from all these sub-servient fissures to its mighty self. As it reaches its alti-tude, the top expands into a great globule like a giant wineglass, or other forms which are created by cloud elementswith which it constantly battles and to which it ultimatelybecomes welded. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 67

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