352 Volcanoes in the Bay of Bengal. 



soil around.* One of the tanks contains nearly 200 crocodiles. 

 There is a spring at no great distance which affords large 

 deposits of sea salt. 



The next volcanic group to be met with in this direction 

 is that of Hinglay, a series of mud volcanoes very similar in 

 point of form to those of Cheduba, along the sea- board of 

 Lus, and now in great activity. Here there is no appear- 

 ance whatever of there ever having been any eruption of 

 lava. The first of these are called the Koops of Chimdra ; 

 they are believed to be of Divine origin, and to be possessed 

 of miraculous virtues. 



The extent of this volcanic field has never been precisely 

 determined ; it extends some fifty or sixty miles inward, and 

 at least three times as much along-shore. 



The band, if band it be, now trends away southerly from 

 lat. 22° to lat. 12° ; and next group we meet in with is that 

 at the mouth and lower part of the Red Sea, commencing 

 with Cape Aden,t and concluding with Gibbel Teir, extend- 

 ing across from the former of these to the Salt Lake Assal, 

 inland from Tadjoura — so inland for 100 miles. 



Aden is spoken of by Arab writers as having been in a 

 state of activity within the historic period ; and though there 

 scarcely seems evidence sufficient of this to be relied on, and 

 a considerable presumption to the contrary, it has all the 

 appearance of great recency. 



{To he concluded in our next Number.) 



* The hot spring takes its name from Peer Muggun, a Mohammedan saint 

 whose shrine is close by. The coincidence of the sound witli the designation 

 given to the long-snouted crocodile (muggun) had led to the inference that it 

 was Peer Muggun, the Crocodile saint. The crocodiles in the tank are of the 

 kind called Gavial — they are precisely similar to those of the Nile and Ganges 

 — not at all like the muggun. 



t See Dr Bird's Notes to Captain Foster's Account of Cape Aden, Bombay 

 Geographical Transactions. Ileferred to in Report of the Society for 1850, 

 vol. ix. 



