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Title: True story of the Martinique and St. Vincent calamities ... including an account of the destruction of Pompei and Herculaneum and accounts of all the most noted volcanic eruptions
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Whitney, John Randolph. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Volcanoes
Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ic Ocean. Within this ampitheatre of volcanoes a multitude of thosecharming isles, which are scattered in pleiads over the ocean, arealso of volcanic origin, and many of them can be distinguishedfrom afar by their smoking or flaming craters. Of this kind aresome of the Marianne and Gallapagos Islands, which containseveral orifices in full activity, and more than two thousand conesin a state of repose. Among these we must especially mentionthe Sandwich Islands, the lofty volcanoes of which rise in the MUTUAL DEPENDENCE OF ALL TERRESTRIAL PHENOMENA. 453 middle central basin of the North Pacific like so many cones oferuption in the midst of a former crater changed into a lake. The Mauna-L-oa and Mauna-Kea, the two volcanic summitsof the island of Hawaii, are each more than 13,000 feet in height ;and the eruptions of the first cone, which are still in full activity,must be reckoned among the most magnificent spectacles of thiskind. On the sides of the Mauna-Loa opens the boiling crater of
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VOLCANO OF TONGARRIRO, NEW ZEALAND. Kilauea, which is, without doubt, the most remarkable lava-sourcewhich exists on our planet. Round the circumference of the Indian Ocean the border ofvolcanoes is much less distinct than round the Pacific ; still it ispossible to recognize some of its elements. To the north of Javaand Sumatra, the volcanoes of which overlook the eastern portionof the basins of the Indian seas, stretches the volcanic archipelagoof the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in which there are severalcones of eruption in full activity, On the west of Hindostan, the 454 MUTUAL DEPENDENCE OF ALL TERRESTRIAL PHENOMENA. peninsula of Kutch, and the delta of the Indus, are often agitatedby subterranean forces. Many mountains on the Arabian coast are nothing but massesof lava; and, if various travelers are to be believed, the volcanicfurnace of these countries is not yet extinct. The Kenia, the greatmountain of Eastern Africa, has on its own summit a crater stillin action—perhaps the

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